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iPads absolutely can produce content. The new GarageBand and iMovie apps are perfect examples of just how much potential the iPad has for creation.

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Autodesk SketchBook is as well. The user interface in this application is so well done.

Potential sure, but the new GarageBand etc. are still just toys, even if Steve claims otherwise. No body is gonna use GarageBand or iMovies to produce something, that gets sold on iTunes.

False. See, e.g. http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/27/gorillaz-ipad-album-now-a...

I think you're wrong about that, but we'll have to wait to find out. So how about Brushes, which was used to make two New Yorker covers?

And this was made in MS Paint --> http://diamonster.deviantart.com/art/powerdraw-17908194?full...

Should people ditch photoshop now?

Just because there a few examples doesn't make it a suitable tool for most people.

Who said anything was a replacement for anything? I'm giving examples of content creation on the iPad to someone who said it couldn't do content creation "at all". It doesn't mean everybody should switch to it completely for everything, that's ridiculous.

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