Yes, you're right. Etch-a-sketches and finger paints are creative media.
I apologize. I shouldn't have compared them to the iPad.
Slashdot isn't known for covering how artists use technology. David Hockney is a blue chip artist that has been working with the iPad and the iPhone to make work that gets serious press. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162
I work in media arts too. The iPad is sprouting like kudzu in creative work.
Email clients are easily tabletized.
Lets be honest though. Would you really want to do excel sheets on a tablet? I mean, to bring an acceptable level of excel functionality to a tablet you'd need an insane amount of gestures/menus to compensate for the desktop interface. By that point it doesn't seem worthwhile. How many unrecognized gestures would it take before you hurled the thing across the room?
Keeping track of grades as an instructor, or attendance.
Or, simple inventory updates in a warehouse.
Adding to the confusion here; Current TV has been using the term video pod for years now. While they have moved away from calling the short form documentaries that comprise most of their programming "pods" of late, their usage is closer to the "video pod" name that Sector Labs is using as well. Not to mention a quick search that shows the term videoPod typically refers to video content designed to play on portable, iPod like devices.
Given how many uses the term has already accrued, it seems that Sector Labs would be better off coming up with a more distinct name.
Cisco Systems owned the iPhone trademark. Apple bought it from them after Cisco sued them.
http://blogs.cisco.com/news/comments/update_on_ciscos_iphone_trademark/
Not to mention the following trademarked generic words: All, Cheer, Dial, Dove, Pert, Suave, Mustang, Focus, Fusion, Crossfire, Tabasco, Oracle, Dell, Windows, Vista, Outlook, Entourage, Office, Access, Logic, Aperture, Flash, Adobe, Apple...
Tabasco has never been a generic term, although over time it has become like xerox, kleenex, or chorox, synonymous with its product. In this case, a vinegar based pepper sauce. The other usage is the Mexican state that gave the sauce its name.
Monster Cable has a generous and prompt replacement policy on their cables. I've had a couple of cable returns with them and it was about as hassle free as an RMA can be.
I've also experienced equipment companies assuming that an exchange of ownership meant that the equipment was stolen. Digidesign/Avid tries actively to keep their older systems off the secondary market, and requires a raft of transfer of ownership paperwork to order things like replacement cabling for their systems. Especially vexing when they deliberately used cables with alternate pinouts for their hookups.
Minimal Logistics - Television is dissimilar to Newspaper in many respects, whereas the Web can perform the functions of both, FOR FREE. No publication money, broadcast license, nor big ad revenue needed, and minimal startup costs. It's just a better wheelbarrow. So why cry because the old rusted out expensive wheelbarrow is going away?
the problem with this argument is that the Internet is not "free". There are real costs involved, and a major but hidden cost is the development of content, especially news journalism.
Sending someone to report on conditions in some remote area of the world doesn't happen for free. That person has to be transported, fed, clothed. Also needs some training in writing skills, probably photography. Maybe videography as well. All of that costs money. So does the cell phone, land line, or whatever means used to connect that person to online resources that are used to file the story, whether it goes into a print or online newspaper.
That old rusted wheelbarrow still provides the majority of reporting that allows the chatterati to expound on subjects that they have no means to access otherwise. In the meantime, we pay every time our eyeballs are assaulted by the growing screen real estate taken by advertisers, in exchange for our "free" web.
Save energy: Drive a smaller shell.
