In addition to the army of consumers and the tech experts are waiting for a glimpse of the aptly named IPAD, the 25,000 strong community development have also patiently standing on the sidelines.

Among several leaps forward in terms of its processing power and onboard hardware, including the device from Apple`s own chip, Jobs said, "It is called the A4 and it screams." Most exciting for developers with iPhone apps already on sale is that Apple has made the transition to iPad as smooth as possible.

Since the device is in the home screen is essentially a facsimile of the iPhone Home Screen, developers are not creating new symbols or other assets to the port via App worries. In fact, as Apple itself said that the iPad can all iPhone apps run unchanged out of the box.

The big announcement for the dev community is that Apple is releasing the new SDK today. Just as the user experience is something like a large iPhone is to take the development within the iPhone SDK, and - thanks to the device app scaling function - developers will not even care about creating content in the larger resolution of the device.

It is unclear whether Apple will also take steps to its Developer Connection Web site, the unusually clunky web-based tool-kit and administration area to update App Store developer.

But the most interesting will be to see how developers take advantage of the extra processing power that includes the IPAD. Developers can use the new SDK grave of Apple.com today.