I found it interesting that there was no mention of handwriting recognition for the pencil input - just not on the radar, it seems. Probably for the best, it&#x27;s always been a disappointment on every device it&#x27;s been used on.<p>Official support for an external keyboard for iPad is interesting - among the &#x27;professional&#x27; kinds of applications that might now become possible to use on a device like this are development tools: code editors, command line interfaces... any chance that as they open up the scope of what&#x27;s possible on the device, they&#x27;ll liberalize the app store policies that currently prevent those kinds of things being created?