Happy birthday, iPad
Isn’t it amazing, the iPad just turned two today.
After Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad two years ago, I remember seeing a lot of comments that this is just a big iPhone and only a surfing device.
Looking at today’s use of the iPad, the opportunities tablets (and especially the iPad being the spearhead of the tablet success) offer hardly anybody imagined and are vast:
Surfing device, reading device, bookstore, game console, channel for corporate marketing communications, management information system, dashboard, point of sale, point of purchase, replacement for laptops and even the Desktop in some cases and much more.
Therefore it feels as if it has been on the market much longer than for just two years.
If you are in publishing, professional or corporate, external or internal, and you are not doing iPad publishing yet, now is the time to start evaluating possibilities and opportunities.
Both an engineer and a layout artist, Matthias bridges the gap between technology and people. Before joining Quark in 1997, Matthias pioneered print, Web, and multimedia products for multiple German publishing companies. He is an active participant in design and publishing communities and represented Quark in the Ghent PDF Workgroup.
From 1997 until 2019 Matthias played a central role in shaping Quark’s desktop, mobile and enterprise software. From February 2014 until January 2019 he headed Quark’s Desktop Publishing business unit; and was therefore responsible for QuarkXPress.
Matthias does not work for Quark anymore. If you want to connect with him, please visit his LinkedIn profile on https://www.linkedin.com/in/mguenther/