I know it's still early, but there are going to be some apps announced and more details revealed as we get closer to the March release date. So, in the spirit of the iPhone/iPod Touch app thread, here's one for the iPad.
I don't have any app news to kick this off with, per se, but I do have a pretty interesting blog post from the guy who wrote the Facebook app (he also did some work on Firefox back in the day). He had previously written a pretty lengthy post detailing his frustrations with the App Store approval process, but seems to be pretty excited about developing for the iPad...
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I spent a year and a half attempting to reduce a massive, complex social networking website into a handheld, touch-screen form factor. My goal was initially just to make a mobile companion for the facebook.com mothership, but once I got comfortable with the platform I became convinced it was possible to create a version of Facebook that was actually better than the website! Of all the platforms I've developed on in my career, from the desktop to the web, iPhone OS gave me the greatest sense of empowerment, and had the highest ceiling for raising the art of UI design. Except there was one thing keeping me from reaching that ceiling: the screen was too small.
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http://joehewitt.com/post/ipad/
The more I think about the possibilities of this thing, the more interested I get. So... let's see what apps come down the pipes!
Edit: I'm not sure if this should go in the iPhone thread or not. On one hand, there's a lot of apps mentioned in that thread, but on the other hand, quite a few of them are outdated and may or may not transfer well to the iPad. I just ended up deciding to make a new thread. If we wind up just wanting it merged, we can do that.