The Apple iPad: Revolutionizing the high-tech computerized business world.
Posted on 03/13/2010 9:23:07 PM PST by myknowledge
The Apple iPad has been available for pre-order for more than 24 hours now. Initial demand seems promising, although not everyone has embraced the concept of dedicating $500 or more to be an early adopter of a device that nobody really has all the details on just yet.
Not to sound like a broken record, but the iPad is a consumer device. Actually, as far as I am concerned anything with an Apple logo is--by default--intended primarily for a consumer audience. Despite the passionate zeal of the Apple faithful, you won't see any Fortune 500 companies lining up to dump Windows-based PC's for Macs, or BlackBerry smartphones for iPhones any time soon.
That said, the iPad--and other Apple devices--can be more than functional business tools as well. Most business professionals will need a little something more from the iPad than a music playing, e-book reading, Web surfing, movie watching tablet device.
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The Apple iPad: Revolutionizing the high-tech computerized business world.
*Mac power on sound*
I am a PC guy, but I have great admiration for Apple stuff; their innovation, the whole cultishness (for want of a better term and it isn’t meant as a put-down) their marketing, everything. I am in no position to agree or disagree with the author’s take, and I suppose the case can be made on cost grounds that Apple computers are expensive when PCs run their typical business apps just fine.
But I have also seen Apple-fired offices (generally in the graphics and music arenas) where the computers were really well appreciated and integrated into the workflows. This is the type of thing where some kind of competitive edge could evolve that could throw over the author’s thinking. Sure, as long as we’re talking word procs and spreadsheets and databases, PCs are adequate and the devil we know vs the devil we don’t.
I am sure that Apple techies will chime in on the cost/ease of maintaining smaller scale (say up to 50-seat) networks. I know damn well that maintaining such a PC network is pretty near a full-time job for somebody.
Portable proposal presentation tool. Contract changes on- the-fly device. Portable Think Tank Chart maker...
The writer needs a paradigm realignment...
The product seems like a solution in search of a problem to solve. It seems that people who want mobile utilities will get them from their cellphone (which is really more like a mini-computer than a phone anymore), and those who want more than that will want a full OS.
Not to say that the technology isn’t cool, but once we get past the gee-whiz factor I can’t think of what else it would be useful for.
Nice, but I think I’ll wait for generatiion 2 or 3.
lol
Its basically a big iTouch with a touch more functionality... I personally can;t see much use for this as its too big to be portable, and anyplace I’m taking a backpack or whatnot to hold it, I can just take my laptop instead. And have even more functionality!
I’m an Apple fan - iMac, iPhone, iPod Touch and love them all.
But I am weary of getting the iPad although it is very much an eyecandy item. I just see no use in it in practical use.
The iPhone that I carry is pretty much a consumer toy, however my complaints go mostly to the lousy coverage that I receive from AT&T. My company mandates that I carry it, so I'm making the best of it. I do miss my Blackberry.
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