> Remember how Macintosh was intended to be the computer “[for the rest of us](http://toastbucket.com/apple1984ad/)“? That’s what we feel Apple’s iPad is: the best computing device for most of the things people use computers for. (Or, as Apple puts it, “[the best way to experience the web, email, and photos](http://www.apple.com/ipad/).”) It’s the computer people can sit down and start using immediately, without training, whether they’re 2 or 92.
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> We’re really excited about Apple’s iPad, and we want to make all of our products available for it as soon as we can. Yes, we already had a big year planned for 2010, with several long-anticipated major product releases—but we think iPad is really important: important enough to spend some time juggling our plans to figure out how we can introduce five new iPad apps.
via [blog.omnigroup.com](http://blog.omnigroup.com/2010/01/29/ipad-or-bust/)
This is what I meant when I talked about why iWork on iPad was so important. Omnigroup, a company that has been writing OS X Mac apps since before it was OS X (they were big NeXT developers back in the day), plans to make all of its major Mac apps for iPad. They see the writing on the wall; the Mac is great, but Apple clearly sees multi-touch as the future.
Omni already makes one of my favorite iPhone apps: Omnifocus. I was hoping they’d eventually make OmniPlan and OmniOutliner for iPhone. I don’t know if the plan here includes having less-powerful versions of all these apps that will run and stay in sync with the iPhone as well as the iPad, but I hope that’s part of it. Either way, I’m just happy to see that at least some smart developers are getting the message that iPad is not something you want to ignore.
