[myknowledge]

The Apple iPad: Revolutionizing the high-tech computerized business world.

[wastedyears]

*Mac power on sound*

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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.

[darkwing104]

Most business professionals will need a little something more from the iPad.

Portable proposal presentation tool. Contract changes on- the-fly device. Portable Think Tank Chart maker...

The writer needs a paradigm realignment...

[eclecticEel]

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.

[martin_fierro]

Nice, but I think I’ll wait for generatiion 2 or 3.

[Psycho_Bunny]

"The Apple iPad: Revolutionizing the high-tech computerized business world."

lol

[papasmurf]

I love my Toshiba Tablet PC. I really do. I wouldn't give it up for all the tea in China. It is, without a doubt, the best $1000.00 I've ever spent on anything tech.



Going on 5 years, and it's still the most productive and useful device I own.

[GulfWar1Vet]

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.