Don't Have an iPad - Don't Worry You Will Soon

I bought my iPad about 14 months ago and when I first got it was quite a novel item here in Ireland as  I had purchased mine in the US and it was cheaper than here at the time.  In the past 12 months the use of iPads and tablet PCs has exploded.  On a plane or in an aircraft lounge the iPad is taking over from the laptop and actually proves that people weren't actually doing any real work on them anyway.On a recent flight the person next to me had a Kindle and next to him was playing Scrabble on the iPad.  I was reading Game of Thrones on my iPad.  This trifecta of devices shows that we are now at the beginning of new device revolution.  The options are limitless.  Imagine this as an example scenario which is happening right now.

You are in an airport waiting for your flight and you see the new John Grisham on the bookshelf.  You don't want the paperback as you do all your reading on-line so you buy it right there and then on the internet.  Lets expand that a bit.  You are travelling to a place that you have not visited before and would like an easily digestible book on the area you are visiting.  As it is a business trip you want to know the good places to eat and if there is any good night life for music or events.  You don't want to surf through lots of meaningless pages and would gladly pay for a mini guide just for a 4 block radius of where you are as you will only be there for one night. This is where hyper local information comes to play and there will be applications and websites springing up for that in the near future that will help this type of traveller.  Download as an ebook and keep to hand as you move around with maps. numbers, menus and tips to show.  YouTube videos of the events and sample tracks.

Are you working on ti yet?  Let me know.