how many people are going to sit there and write documents or make major typing changes on an iPad?
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Then again, you can't print from the iPad so that's a bummer for Office style productitivity apps...I hate reading anything longer than 3 pages on a screen...print it out so its gentler on the eyes, I can mark it up quickly and easily with pen, etc.
I am going to, since I'll be using an iPad as my primary device. And yes, you
can print from an iPhone, and therefore too from an iPad, and that's
before we learn more about what's in the 3.2 SDK. I've now had a peak at some of it and can say simply that...you're wrong.
What business is going buy an iPad?! The iPad is clearly advertised and aimed at games, videos, ebooks, and web surfing. Sure, there will likely be some "productivity" apps available for it but no business is going to give out iPads to its employees for work use.
The only business model I could see POSSIBLY rolling out an iPad (or any other similar tablet in the future) is the hospital industry...allowing nurses and doctors to carry around a single digital clipboard with all the information about the patients rather than carrying a few clipboards/paper folders as they do today. But given HIPAA and other regulatory compliance, the digital clipboard is years if not decades away from adoption.
-Eric
Well you've been taken to task here by many for this comment, and I think appropriately so. I can think of so many businesses off the top of my head that it's bizarre that you claim to only be able to come up with one!
Won't help sales of iPad IMO. The iPad is a media consumption device, not a productivity device.
Not for me. I will be using my iPad as my primary computing device, and I
will use it to create content. And I am not alone.
This would be good, but without a stylus/handwriting recognition you couldn't do real work. Virtual keyboards are OK for light stuff but would be torture for a long document. I would also not be able to switch back and forth between my open document and an electronic dictionary, as I do all the time, since there's no multitasking. So I guess Office would not be the killer app to get me to buy an iPad.
You really think we won't have "multi-tasking" functionality?
Seriously? And I put it in quotes to distinguish between the capability and the technology underpinning it.
And I laugh at your naivety.
People like you are the ones who predicted flying cars in 2000, you probably thought the Segway would also replace all pedestrians as well, e.g. This isn't the industrial revolution or invention of the wheel here. Times have changed and reality is far different from concept. People like you say "oh this will change the world" but then reality sets in. Who's going to cover training employees with the iPad? IT costs? Security? Insurance? Everybody already knows how to use a laptop and the iPad is hardly the device to make everybody drop and run to replace the laptop.
You
do know we landed on the moon right?
As for your point, actually from an IT admin standpoint, given the right tools by Apple (and given the Exchange support they built into the iPhone OS, there's no reason to believe we won't see great admin tools for the iPad) an IT admin would *love* to distribute these in a business environment. The "closed" system - something so often derided and feared, actually makes it way easier for an admin to do their job (again, pending an expected set of admin tools from Apple).
Look ahead everyone, not behind - or that's where you'll stay!
