The iPad seems like the single best way to conduct in-person, live surveys. I think there should be some focus on that aspect of the device. You mention a great UX – I agree. I nice touchscreen interface for surveys could make them more enjoyable to fill out.

Just make sure nothing, NOTHING, requires two clicks.

So, a select box should not take one click to activate and display; then another to actually make the selection.

I think you need to take a step back from your bias. It's pretty obvious that you like your iPad, and your bias is getting in your way.

Given that WuFoo was recently acquired, and the market for its services are in demand, it nearly makes sense to duplicate what they did rather than build something iPad specific. There may be another corp out there looking to acquire a WuFoo-like startup.

I actually don't own an iPad. I do love my friends' iPads and just feel the experience of creating surveys would be superior. Anyways, I'm quite surprised you suggest following a WuFoo model. The product will continue to strengthen I'm sure, and it seems with SurveyMonkey behind them, it would be difficult to compete. I'm sure I missed something with your thought process though.

It's plain and simple; Having competitors validates the market. Building easy form creation and tracking is one of those things companies just never think about, so a startup like wufoo can fly under the radar until they're considered valuable enough to acquire.

For sure! Make it work on any touch screen for that matter (iPad is premium) - greenpeace people might like it too. Insurance adjusters? Cops? Plumbers? etc.

You really opened my eyes to all the possibilities, not just with surveys, but with forms, estimate inputs, invoice sign offs...

Now think doctors and nurses running around the hospital with this, ticket checker/conductor on Amtrack, a teacher in a classroom taking attendance, anthropologists in the field, mine and oil site inspectors, most importantly think third world's extended health care workers (docs are a few so they train folks to be half-docs and send them all over - millions of them - imagine one doc sitting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia getting real time data from 1000 workers and only bothered when a red flag is raised by a worker tending to a pregnant woman going in labor shortly - UN orgs give a lot of money for infant mortality - as a matter of fact for all 7 UN's Millennium Development Goals).

it could work if you made it REALLY simple.. but i mean REALLY simple, sharing and creating

You can do it, make it smart but very simple.