The "cordless" use case is different: the iPad ultimately winds up being a media consumption device mostly used around the house as a shared device, where a mobile phone or a netbook or notebook tends to be a "personal" device used by discrete people.
Imagine something that lies around on coffee and end tables, on kitchen counters and gets picked up and used for various reasons on a casual basis, but which is a "shared" device rather more like a cordless phone or remote control. That implies a lower price than currently is the case, but everybody expects that to happen.
Nobody can say for sure whether these, or even other undiscovered use cases will eventually emerge. In the near term, the iPad might wind up being used as a game platform, an e-book reader, a video consumption device and an educational content platform, at least if user consumption matches the current supply of applications in the App Store.
According to App Store analytics company Distimo, out of 2,385 iPad-only apps, 833 of them are games, about 35 percent of all the iPad-only apps currently available in the App Store.
The other popular categories are ‘entertainment’ with 260 apps, and ‘education’ with 205 apps.
But the emphasis on games and entertainment also is true of the iPod as well. In fact, 70 percent of the most popular applications on the iPhone are published in entertainment and education categories, compared to 40 percent on the iPad.
About 83 percent of applications on the iPad are offered on a paid basis, while 73 percent of all applications are offered "for fee" on the iPhone. The average price of all paid applications that are solely compatible with iPad is $3.61 compared to $3.55 for applications compatible with iPhone.
Medical applications are most expensive on both the iPad ($9.39) and iPhone ($10.73). On the contrary, Education ($9.10), Healthcare & Fitness ($4.41), Music ($6.86) and Sports ($4.95) applications are significantly more expensive on the iPad.
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