There are so many reasons why business owners should plan to buy an iPad touch. Though clearly aimed at casual users and touted primarily for couch web surfing and multimedia consumption, the iPad touch also has plenty of potential business uses.
By creating a special iPad touch optimized edition of iWork, Apple’s productivity suite, Apple also clearly sees the iPad’s business potential. Their ultra-competitive announced price of just $9.99 for the app indicates that Apple plans to aggressively court business users, even if that is not necessarily their core customer.
Essentially, the iPad touch is a big iPod touch that in theory provides a better typing experience. Because the iPad will run any of the 140,000 iPhone/iPod apps right out of the box, any business use you already have for your iPod touch or iPhone will be available to you on the iPad.
Keep in mind, the iPad touch could certainly become an asset to sales people who make presentations on the road or anyone who needs to easily monitor core business functions from the road using a relatively cheap and compact device.