There are three things I really want to see.
1. Stories written for the the kindle - that use 'kindleyness' the way novels use 'bookiness'.
2. Music made for the shuffle - pieces designed to appear randomly but still hang together. More than a bunch of songs. And long too, filling up a shuffle, hours worth of it.
3. Comics made for an iPad. Something that's not just a port of a comic, that combines words and pictures in a way that exploits the iPad's capabilities.
These things may exist already and I've just missed them. I hope so. Anyone know any? In the meantime there are lots of things heading in that direction, crossing from one place to another. Some are:
Mark Wernham has made an app instead of a novel. Sort of. Perhaps it's more of an app on the way to a novel, or around the back of a novel. It's not, at least, just an app designed to promote a novel. It's an app made of novely stuff. It's free, it's interesting, it's worth looking at.
The Malcolm Tucker App is good too. Very nicely translates that book-of-the-series vibe onto an iPhone. Hints of something interesting going on there. Especially the way it reaches out into your iPhone life.
Matt pointed out this moment in webcomics. (Click on the 'follow him' link in the post below it and keep going). As he says, it seems small, but it's actually using what the medium can do.
And there are the art apps Scott Snibbe makes. His notion Art Wants To Be Ninety-Nine Cents seems like an interesting reframing to me.
I'm sure I had some more somewhere. I'll dig them out.
Anyway.