Concluding remarks:

• The iPad represents a new metaphor for information devices
• at an early stage in the evolutionary cycle (≡ ~ 1985 for Desktop systems)
• Currently, the developer's (business model) controls what you can do
• So, the App will only be the New Web if ..
  • We demand Open (data) Apps (ChemWriter)
  • which allow you the user, to be in control of your information and data!
• Will the iPad (in 2011) be useful in a (wet) chemical laboratory?
• .and...

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• I think its an exciting (and challenging) time to be a book author, who also bears a responsibity for ...
• creating an Open Environment (readers are also authors!)

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