Yesterday, Apple announced the newest addition to the Mac line, the iPad. When I look at it, I can’t help but think about the movie “I, Robot” and the scene on the bus when people are reading newspapers on a thin, digital tablet-of-sorts.
Is the iPad the next step for newspapers? It wasn’t created to be an all-purpose computer, it’s simply an appliance, similar to a giant iPhone, without a camera and the ability to make phone calls.
Once newspapers figure out how to make a fair transition from subscriptions for print issues to subscriptions for online or digital issues, we may get to see the full potential of the iPad.