The iPad is still not without its limitations as a DJ controller, but it’s the app developers who really make the hardware shine. We tend to forget that the iPad was built as a platform for others to build upon, rather than an all-in one device where everything is already included in the purchase. When you think back to the first Apple computers that were built, they faced a similar controversy. Some simply saw them as a supped up typewriter, but once people realized that they could be programmed to perform tasks, it opened the world of computing to a different level. This is what the iPad is going through right now; the first stages of real development.
Before the iPad was taken seriously as a device for DJs and producers, there was the Lemur. The Lemur was, what the iPad is today – a touch screen device that could …
