Update on the iPad

Well the first iPad commercial aired during the Oscars, which I didn't see because I don't have a TV and I don't much care about who wins. The commercial is pretty cool but as demonstrated in the YouTube! video The SECRETS of the Apple iPad Ad its probably been digitally enhanced. The instant movie start up was the funnest in my opinion (see video below).

There has been some noise about Microsoft Courier being an iPad killer. While I like the Courier concept I don't see it as competing directly with the iPad. It's market seems smaller to me but I still can't wait see how well it works if it ever comes out. The fact that it relies so heavily on digital stylus worries me as my experience with that technology on the Windows platform as been very poor.

I'm already hard at work on my new book Learning iPad SDK and things are going well. I've been using the beta that was pulled and I'll keep using it until they post another.

I've been thinking of how iPhone apps will port to iPad in terms of layout and I have to agree with John Gruber at Daring Fireball that the experience will be, for the most part, less than awesome. If you want your application to work well on the iPad than you probably should rewrite it for that form factor otherwise the experience will be lacking.