The Future Of Golf Instruction Remains On Hold; Hope For Books?

I've devoted two hours of my life today listening to late 90s style audio feeds and live blogs to soak up the Apple "iPad" announcement and without touching a device, it's still pretty easy to get excited.

The good news? For book lovers, it looks fantastic and they've already lined up relationships with book publishers. I can already envision ways that books will come to life on the device. Golf architecture books could be really neat with loads of interactive touches.

The yet-to-be-determined news? There wasn't much in the way of demos for how magazines would work, though a New York Times demo appeared nice. I'm sensing they haven't ironed out itunes relationships with magazine publishers yet. Apparently the publishers want to hang onto control so they can harvest information about subscribers while Apple wants to use the itunes store to sell either subscriptions or magazine apps. Let's hope the magazine folks don't resist iTunes the way the music business did.

The bad news? No camera, which means golf instructors won't be able to capture a swing and then analyze it on top of the pad. That's something to look forward to in iPad 2.0, and something I suspect will happen if Apple is as serious as they claim in making this a device used by doctors and hospitals.

Did any of you techies watch and have any thoughts?