The iPad (see video) is not even in stores yet (60 days for Wi-Fi, 90 days for 3G) but people are already talking about its impact on how media are delivered and consumed.
Damon Kiesow at Poynter provides a nice run down on the discussion along these lines as well as initial reactions to the iPad.
Prior to the announcement, media reports said Apple worked with the New York Times to develop an app that would make reading the paper as easy as if the reader had a paper and ink version. And, as one person pointed out in a Facebook discussion on this topic, there is an app for everything. So the NYT app is hardly a salvation app for journalism.
We’ll see.
And no discussion of the iPad would be complete without comments about the name and the possiblities for humor it provides.