Industry hasn't caught up yet with the iPad, because it's a very different tool. But you can see it start to happen. An iPad is becoming the default point of

Industry hasn't caught up yet with the iPad, because it's a very different tool. But you can see it start to happen. An iPad is becoming the default point of sale system in a lot of places. My wife works with autistic kids; he doesn't have a computer, he has an iPad so he can go from recording behavioral data to YouTube in a fluid motion. The iPad stumbled because it was supposed to be a consumer device, and then developers and users realized it filled a niche for a lot of creation tasks, and Apple has been playing catch-up ever since.