Not surprising. Their ancillary reach on the web casts a wide net.

never thought i'd contribute to gl, but now there's an incentive. even though the ipad is not a big market right now, it certainly has potential. it's great they've made it ipad compatible so you can download directly rather than go through the mac interface via the hub (a huge pain).

interesting move. I wonder if the other agencies will follow. The good side of being relatively a small company is you can react quickly to new markets like this.

it's nice to see them innovating.  I think an app that lets people download wallpaper backgrounds, which essentially this does, could be a very popular program.

Hopefully the other micros will follow suit shortly so those of us who do photos will be able to take advantage of the new market too

Hi louoates,

To answer your first question, the iPad can view most sites out there on the internet, with the exception of websites built in flash or websites that have flash tightly integrated into their design. The iPad also doesn't have a "file system" like your desktop computer, so if you go to any stock image site and want to purchase an image, you won't be able to download the file because they are most likely in .zip format. You also can't open vectors in EPS or SVG format on an iPad (yet). Basically, you can only download a few types of files from the internet on an iPad, JPEGs being one of them.

With our GL4iPad site, we designed it from the ground up just for iPad. The design and content are stripped down somewhat and the pages were built in HTML5 and CSS3 to make the experience a lot faster than browsing the normal "desktop" version of the website. When browsing with an iPad, you won't see vector files since they can't be opened or edited on the iPad, and when you purchase a JPEG, the website will prepare the file for you by unzipping it and providing simple instructions to download to your "Photos" folder.

With the new platform growing like crazy and apps like Keynote, Pages and Wordpress becoming really popular, iPad owners are using the new device to produce content like presentations, documents and blog posts for their business. We wanted to cater to this market by providing professional graphics and photos to these content producers with an affordable and easy-to-use resource that was built just for them.

Thankfully, I still have no need for the iPad.

I have one already for years. It has a keyboard, a hard disk, USB ports and it can render flash. I think it's called a laptop. 
On topic, I can see a way an iPad can be useful for sales. On the road or waiting out of the office, a customer can browse at his ease through all the offerings and spend time searching in a more relaxed way. He can enter the candidates in a lightbox and then have a closer look or download the lightbox later back in the office.

Funny seeing people queuing through the night to get their ipads in the UK.  Good luck to GL, I hope there are PC pads out soon with USB ports, webcams etc. at a lower price.  I might be interested then.