It’s not even on sale yet, but the iPad has become everything to everybody. To the geeks the iPad is a big yawn. To the fan boys the iPad is better than antibiotics. To the medical profession the iPad may prove to be a double barreled savior. Doctors can use the iPad in their practice, and the iPad may promote bad posture, leading to poor health, leading to more visits to the doctor.

Dr. David Rempel in TechNewsDaily. The iPad…

...creates a wonderful opportunity in terms of mobility and ease of interaction… [it] poses a similar type of musculoskeletal problems as the laptop. Working on a laptop for long periods of time puts a heavy load on a user’s neck and upper back, causing fatigue and pain. Large U.S.-based companies that shifted their workforce away from desktops to laptops to increase productivity found their workers suffered from more neck and back problems.

In other words, the iPad is bad for your posture.

How do you browse the web using your iPhone or iPod touch? Do you go directly to a main site? Or, do you get redirected to a mobile version of the site? Eric Jacobsen’s iBusted on how bad the links are to sites with mobile versions:

When the iPhone debuted nearly three years ago, everyone in the computer industry asked themselves, “What can I do to get on this bandwagon?” The obvious answer for digital publishers was to build iPhone-optimized versions of their websites. By offering an optimized site, a content site could offer a superior experience for the end user and enjoy a little sexiness-by-association from the Jesus Phone. Somehow these efforts were horribly botched, and two years later we’re still suffering them.

Why? Some sites automatically redirect mobile phone visitors to the mobile optimized version of their site, but don’t manage to keep the links in sync with the main site. For PixoBebo I created a CSS version for the iPhone and iPod touch. Click the Mobile link above to view the site on your iPhone. It’s faster, easier on your iPhone eyes, and has fewer ads. Regardless, the choice to go to a mobile site vs. the main site should be the user’s choice.

Apple’s iTunes App Store turns one year old this weekend. How many apps are there? 60,000 and growing. Fast. Over 200 new apps per day.

Fortune:

The most popular category in the store is games, with a total of 10,346 to choose from, closely followed by Entertainment (7,852) and Books (7,564). There are 9097 finance programs, 663 medical apps, 306 weather applications, and according to Krapps.com’s Alex Miro, at least 50 fart apps.

What’s the price tag for the average app and what would it cost if you bought one of each?

The average price of an app, including both the 12,754 free apps and the most expensive app (a video surveillance program called iRa with a $899.99 price tag) is $2.57. If you wanted to buy every app in the U.S. store today, according to 148Apps, it would cost you $145,885.87.

The number of active publishers? 14,935. “Developers, developers, developers…”

That would have been a good question to ask in, say, 2003. What does Dave Taylor say about it?

That’s a surprisingly common question and when I think about the experience of going into an Apple Store, I can totally understand the confusion. There are dozens of fancy computers in the store, many demonstrating how the iPhone or Apple iPod can interact with the computer itself, but not one of them is a Dell, Gateway, Toshiba or HP.

Apple has sold upwards of 300-million iPods to date; probably 90-percent of them to Windows PC users. The same holds true for the nearly 80-million iPhones and iPod touch players. The vast majority are purchased by Windows PC users, not Mac users.

Obviously, and in increasing numbers, Windows PC users like iTunes, iPods, iPhones, and, Macs. Unsurprisingly, not many technology journalists seem to know that, equating iPod and iPhone users with the Cult of Apple.

From Fake Steve’s case against IBM:

You don’t suppose that in the era of “cloud computing” companies might face any of the same dangers, do you? Except that instead of being controlled by IBM you’ll be controlled by Google? Could that be why Google is so excited about the cloud and is giving away all that free stuff?

iPhone apps, anyone?