In the wake of my colleague Harry McCracken’s sensible commentary on Richard Gaywood’sTUAW piece about the iPad’s viability as a content creation tool, I wanted to write from the standpoint of someone with friends in both the pro-visual and audio side of the biz who increasingly use tablets as go-to devices for serious musical and visual content.

Spoiler: Yes, I view tablets as content creation devices in their own right. And by “content creation,” I mean everything from keying in a book to tapping out a music album to finger-sketching serious visual art.