Now that Apple have introduced their new iPad to the world, the ever-changing world of online poker and gambling could be set to undergo yet another futuristic transition.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs
announced the successful completion of the tablet computer in a press
conference on Wednesday, around a decade after work on it began, and despite
having canceled the project twice in the past.
With a 9.7 inch (25 cm)
multi-touch screen and starting at a price of $499, this wondrous new piece of
technology will prove massively popular when it is released in US stores in
March.
And given that it
effectively has most of the features of a laptop or smart phone, users could
now be presented with the opportunity to play online poker wherever they go,
providing they have the necessary Wi-Fi or 3G coverage.
At present players would
obviously be limited to browser-based casinos, but given that online casinos
have already developed software for Apple's previous success story - the iPhone
- there is no reason to suggest they won't also do so for the iPad.
If poker operators can
successfully develop software for the iPad's unique multi-touch screen format -
and there is no doubt they will - then combined with the claimed 10 hour
battery usage, poker and iPads are set to become the perfect match for
each other.