iPhoto on the iPad is a brilliant piece of software that allows for a remarkable amount of editing, pretty much covering all the basics that you would want to have to get a quick appreasal of your photos. Of course it is still far from what you can achieve with Aperture on the desktop, but even so the portability of the iPad should mean that I would use it regularly. But I am not using it, not because it does not work, but because I cannot get the edits out into Aperture.
What I would like to use is the following workflow, so that I do not need a MacBook around while shooting:
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Shot images
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Import to the iPad
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Use iPhoto to do a first round through the images, rating them and inserting the basic event data
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Maybe do a bit of editing to see the effect of some basic changes
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Transfer the images with all info ( including edits) to Aperture for archiving and fine tuning the keeper images
There would be a few functions that would make using iPhoto for this goal easier, like
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Allow you to delete images on the iPad, so that you can already destroy the awful images.
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Allow better marking of images, like the colors / stars in Aperture
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Allow you to modify meta data for the images, like position and keywords, so that you can have them easily marked with the shot info on the iPad, instead of having to do this on the Mac.
But all of these improvements are irrelevant as long as you cannot get your changes out, and iPhoto insists on being a data silo.