I don’t know how Apple’s eBooks compare, but Amazon allows 5 devices to share 1 book purchase in the family. When Ellen buys a book on her Kindle, I can have a copy for free on my iPhone. I didn’t hear if Apple will do that.

Well if it’s like musi and (IIRC videos) Apple offers you can have it on up to five Macs and any number of iPods/iPhones synced with those Macs.

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Ah, yes, but then you'd need $500 worth of magnets!

I might buy one for my Mom, who wants to be able to show photos and e-mail to her friends, but who doesn't want to bring people into her bedroom, where her Mac now sits. So, I suspect it will make a great "living room" computer for her.

Now I'm debating whether her new device should be the iPad or a 15-inch MacBook Pro.

But then there’s the custom development. A well designed iPad app could take over the high end audio visual control market.

And… who want’s to bet there’s a Boxee app coming soon… this would be KILLER coupled with Boxee on a Mac Mini… or with the new Boxee cube coming out this year.

And with so many cloud apps out there now… an iPad that runs a nice browser and an email app may be all the average user needs!

Then I suddenly imagined it at various places around the house like a frame, then stuck the fridge with magnets! And if I can send pictures to it from afar, (sems likely) she can see them shown wherever she likes to put this device.

At first, that seems like a really pricey way to do that job. So many others have cheaper solutions after all. But it suddenly struck me as so viral. I get this for my Mom. She uses it to show pictures to her friends. She decides to try it for email because its THERE. Now all the other functions start to get used. She takes it with her everywhere to have that photo gallery. Her friends see it. She wants a better purse for it. (New clothing lines!) Totally viral sales.

The Kindle still has 1 thing the pad won’t: totally free cellular connection. That ensures that the Kindle owners can buy a book on a whim. Instant Gratification. The iPad with 3G will be close. I don’t know how Apple’s eBooks compare, but Amazon allows 5 devices to share 1 book purchase in the family. When Ellen buys a book on her Kindle, I can have a copy for free on my iPhone. I didn’t hear if Apple will do that.

I keep hearing “Kindle Killer”, but I don’t think it has to be framed that way. Amazon has an iPhone app already, so it will work on iPad-day-one. They can just sell the eBooks to iPad owners as well. They can just drop the Kindle and not really care. Its about online sales for them. (But I wouldn’t want to be working in the Kindle department right now.)

I predict that the wifi iPad will make sales of MiFi go up. When you’ve got a group of devices that all want to be online, and the all have WiFi, that connection-sharing widget looks pretty good.

iPads for sales presentations alone will be big. A laptop can put a barrier between presenter and audience. An iPad doesn’t look like it will.

Sound. I’ve noticed lately that my iPhone headphones work for sound-in on my iPod Touch and on my MacBook. The single jack on the new MacBook looked like mic support was dropped, but its in there. Plus the button on the headphones works to pause/play the MacBook. Maybe the same for the iPad?

This reminds me a lot of the term TiVo coined: “Time-Shifting”. With this light little device we can make more of time we would have wasted in lines or walking down the street Watch TV/Movies/YouTube when you have some time. Type an article if you have a few minutes. Read the news.

I saw the part where he showed the Map Application. WOW! Beautiful big maps and satellite photos. My forestry-employed family members would flip. Car iPad mounts are coming for those maps alone. And those car-computers with touch-screens are about to be kicked out. This is the whole thing rolled up in the monitor, just drop into the mount, add power and audio connections. (New law against using it while driving except for the Tom-Tom app.) However, it only has “assisted GPS” listed for the 3G model.

Never fear, a Daytona company makes a wifi-GPS bridge so any smartphone can access GPS data. http://www.g-fi.com/. Also, the Sprint MiFi device also has a GPS. (Its unclear if wifi devices can access the GPS data.)

Dare I say it? How long before we have the Cross-Over iPad App? Run Windows Explorer better than anywhere else. (ugh) Well, the best VNC device for running the beige-box from across the room/house/planet.

What else to predict as built from this?

Electronic Menu for Restaurants? (Play trivia quiz while waiting)
Trendy Point-of-Sale systems?
Kiosks?
Mobile Security Guard Video Monitors?
Presentation collections? (One for each person, all controlled by speaker.)
Ziplock bags for use in the shower?
Insta-print by putting it face-down on a copier.