"Think of data as a silo that exists within the cloud. That data can be tapped at anytime, from anywhere, using tablets with applications specifically designed to access the data and give it context. That has precisely what is happening in baseball."

"One minute, twenty seconds.... At that point, it’s already a lost cause. There’s nothing the actual content or interface of the app can do to make up for the fact that it takes way too long to see anything at all. Imagine a paper newspaper that was wrapped in an envelope, and the envelope was so difficult to open that it took over a minute before you could see the front page of the issue. Who would buy that newspaper? No one, that’s who. And I suspect that’s who’s going to read The Daily, unless they fix this, and soon."

"It’s bordering on obstinate to think that something you care so much about can be salvaged by doing more or less the same thing that has failed magazines so consistently until now: continuing to ignore the fundamentals of digital user experience design and how they diverge from analog print design."

"And those who aren’t subscribers, well if they’re not willing to buy in for the actual magazine at like practically nothing a year, why would they pay for their iPad edition, which actually, in the case of Vanity Fair, costs $4.99 for the first issue? I mean, on the same web page that announces their $4.99 iPad app, up top they’re trumpeting their 'ONLY $1 an issue' subscription rate. How is that even happening?"

"I’m not ready to ditch my fancy iPhone. And there are hardly enough tablets out there yet to dent the handset business, even if every single owner dumbed down their phone. But it feels like we are at a turning point where, suddenly, the unthinkable is plausible."

"Since every sales company's catalogs, including Keeneland's, have been available in portable document format (PDF) online for several years, it has long been possible to download entire catalogs to computers, but Apple Inc.'s new iPad as well as other tablet computers offer new possibilities to anyone who might feel overburdened by the burgeoning tools of the Thoroughbred trade."

"I never realized how much web terminology had crept into my vocabulary. An iPad app doesn’t have pages, it has screens or views. You don’t click, you tap. You don’t scroll, you swipe. I spent much of our early meetings stumbling over my own words just to communicate the basics."

"As a device for the efficient consumption of MLB content, the iPad is so satisfying that I miss my cable television subscription -- and paying fees that ultimately make their way back to the franchises and the league -- even less than I did before."

"iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems."

PA board members discuss the iPad and how they're using it for racing. Small ideas? None that I see.

"Progress may, for a time, intersect with one's own personal ideology, and during that period one will become a gung-ho technological progressivist."

Questions about Apple, New York Times dealings.

"The iPad doesn't run Flash. If your website uses Flash, it won't play well on the iPad. Turns out, a lot of people want their sites to look pretty on the iPad. So the internet's already starting to look different." (More: http://newteevee.com/2010/03/28/brightcove-targets-ipad-with-html5-support/ Pushback: http://valleywag.gawker.com/5502300/publishers-push-back-against-steve-jobs-anti+flash-propaganda)

What’s most exciting is that this fundamental transformation -- cloud + social + iPad -- will inspire a new generation of wildly innovative new apps that will change entire industries.

How the physical and digital will coexist. "Goodbye, disposable books. Hello, new canvases."

"The iPad as a particular device is not necessarily the future of computing. But as an ideology, I think it just might be."

"I can see a day when what I write has to be approved by someone who works for Steve Jobs before it can be read publicly. That's a day when freedom is completely crushed."

"Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism." (Of a piece with "I love walled gardens": http://www.rinich.com/post/358597818/i-love-walled-gardens)

"... in the end, what it comes down to is that iPad offers new metaphors that will let users engage with their computers with dramatically less friction. That gives me, as a developer, a sense of power and potency and creativity like no other."

"The iPad is an attractive, thoughtfully designed, deeply cynical thing. It is a digital consumption machine."

"What MLB showed off today could be the best version of Gameday and MLB.tv that BAM has developed so far -- even better than the desktop experience."

"There is still an opportunity for publishers here. But instead of relying on Apple to save them, publishers will have to step up and create their own apps, for their own content."