IPad TV

Although the article is purely speculative, it is interesting to note that the iPad's "Videos.app" could easily be replaced by the Apple TV's touchscreen-friendly interface.<p>Also: <i>"So, one more sidetrack: If video is moved off of iTunes, the App Store is a marketplace for apps, and our books are bought in iBooks, could this mean that iTunes could return, gracefully, to serve its original purpose? Could iTunes just be for music? I just blew my mind."</i><p>Unfortunately, this seems extremely unlikely.

<i>And then it hits. The iPad is for the nightstand. And for the sofa, and for the places between where you stand in line and where you sit at your desk. That’s why every iPad poster and billboard features it on a lap or a knee. They’ve stopped short of showing it on a chest in bed, but that’s where mine gets its most use.</i><p>Another use for a compact tablet/slate: shower radio. No, you don't put it in the shower, but it does quite well on the windowsill right outside to the shower, at the other end of the tub from the shower-head. There's no danger of it getting wet, yet I can use the NPR app to continue listening to the radio.<p>I've been doing this with the old Windows XP slate. The iPad is lighter and more convenient for this purpose.

A lot of these iPad reviews sound like they missed the netbook revolution because Apple never made one.<p>A small, light computer that you can sit on your chest to watch video in bed? Genius! Now if only it had some kind of weighted section with a hinge that would let you prop it up at an appropriate angle, maybe we could add a keyboard there too.

This author completely lost me here...<p>&#62;I came close once to getting the QuickTime logo tattooed on my calf.