The world stood on its toes as Steve Jobs announced the iPad in January 010, as ´our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.´ Do you believe in magic? The iPad has that magical quality of disappearing into your hands as you explore content with it. You have to hold one and use it to understand that feeling of the hardware disappearing - you have the software application itself in your hands, with no extraneous buttons and controls in the way of your experience with the content. And yes, the music is groovy - it?s based on the iPod and iPhone. But the iPad is more than groovy: It?s a game changer for the Internet as a publishing medium, for the software industry with regard to applications, and for the mobile device industry with regard to the overall digital media experience. The form factor, portability, swift performance and software experience changes the game with all devices that access the Internet. And I?m tickled pink to be writing about developing software for it at this early stage of its evolution, because I know the iPad will in fact revolutionize portable computing and Internet access.