Publishers will be salivating over the creative possibilities now that they can get there hands on an iPad. The mechanical aspect of the device is so transparent as to invisible, it is all screen, a ménage a trois between your eyes, your fingers and a device. Touch, still a novelty to much of the population, got bar mitzvahed today, and may begin to grow into a far more robust, mainstream interface. More experienced Valley hands had suggested that far more than a glorified e-reader, the tablet would be an aggressive play into the computer space and the announcement this morning bore that out.
Today represented an inflection point in digital history and a reset button for the industry. Microsoft developed the operating system for the modern computer, Google developed the operating system for the Web, and Apple want to be the operating system between the consumer and the growing heaps of media that consumers take in.