The sound studio we use to record dialog for our games has started using iPads both for occasional music stands, and (more importantly) for sharing the live run

The sound studio we use to record dialog for our games has started using iPads both for occasional music stands, and (more importantly) for sharing the live running script and notations across everyone working to record. They seem to love it. It's definitely not being used for pure content creation, but you're right that as an accessory it has many applications.