What is "iPad"? Words like "the future, there in front of us" might be a good explanation.

What is "iPad"? Words like "the future, there in front of us" might be a good explanation. iPad is in a way a "big iPod touch" (Apple must have known that there was a huge need for such devices), and at the same time, a forerunner of the next generation iPhone (some already call iPhone a iPad nano, and I believe their view is right).

However, there is a potential much bigger than a "sustainable development" inside the iPad. Needless to say, Apple has already released iPad SDK and allows access to its unique features. Developers has been given the time to make iPad-original applications before the product release.
The freedom to develop applications in this device-from-future is a great pleasure and opportunity for developers, and that must benefit Apple as well. What kind of killer use case will iPad nourish? The answer to that question will be in the hands of both Apple and third party groups, very soon.

iPad stimulates the imagination of developers very strongly. It is a clear medium, an object with only the minimum equipment needed for accessing the information universe. The ascetic stance that sharpens the functions in such a way so that the hardware is not allowed to show themselves has been succeeded from the first iPhone.
I feel that the device not being able to exchange batteries, or not having much of an interface for connections rather than a dock connecter, is also proof that iPad is following that concept.

Well, and then comes Sekai Camera for iPad. Seeing the iPad presentation (via web) I know one thing for sure: This is the best device for our "Sekai 'NO' Camera"- a concept we already have been discussing for long. I am sorry to say that much of this still has to be kept secret, but Sekai Camera working on iPod Touch has always been a strong demand, and we have been working very hard to make a solid output - which has come to meet the best match with the debut of iPad.

Of course, iPad will not be able to view the world in AR vision (seeing Airtags floating around) easily - cameras are quite essential. But Sekai Camera after version 2.0 now carries "Sekai Life", a social graph viewer, enabling users to broaden their activities in social AR experiences. An environment in which people can see where and when who did what and how they felt in near-realtime, is already within Sekai Camera.
Having the AR view user interface as an entrance, an areal social networking is taking flight - already beating the heart of a new life stream. A new way of using Sekai Camera we are about to show you and implement in iPad, will surely make you say "Eureka!"

I feel that revolutions nowadays are very hard to capture. Things happen without a sound, and finishes off when we first start to take notice. The change iPhone has brought to the mobile internet was one of those cases (what iPod brought to the music distribution industry was one as well). Nobody must have been able to spot those great changes at the point of their first appearance, and things like the retreat of the US mobile operators (seen in scenes like CES2010, where no US operators were present) must have been historical events but they all happened in a time span which could be called a "flash".

iPad probably carries the same speed and power, but it will be causing a revolution unseeable to many. People that had not been in the world of Notebook PCs and Netbooks will come into the world of iPad (and maybe its imitations), starting the second revolution after the first; when Apple raised their pirate flag against IBM in 1984 - PC revolution. This probably is the 2nd chapter of the slogan Macintosh has carried in its startup - "for the rest of us"

Takahito Iguchi ( Translated by Tabata Sunao )