iPad Idiot FUD Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Swordmakers BACK...
If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.
Swordmakers BACK...
Those are some very good reasons. No USB? No camera? Srsly?
Speaking just from the history of the last 10 years, betting against Apple and Jobs isn’t a smart bet.
He just may have spotted a niche here nobody else could see.
I almost forgot - welcome back :)
1. Slow is as slow is. — Unless the UI is completely redone for touch.
2. “The iPad does not run common office productivity tools,” — iWork, completely redone for touch
3. No camera on an iPad. — This is a bad one, OTOH it’s good for places that don’t allow cameras.
4. No multitasking allowed on the iPad. — What they mean is you can’t let something crunch in the background while you’re doing something in the foreground. You can still effectively (as far as the user knows) run multiple apps and switch between them.
5. No Flash on iPad. — I’ll give them that one. I don’t like flash either, but it’s there.
6. No USB out of the box. — Bluetooth, and the dock connector contains USB
7. Money talks. — And yet we’ve found that people will pay extra for good engineering and design.
8. Speaking of money, there is no money in the company budget to pay for iPads. — Depends on your company.
9. Not supporting iPad will be the enterprise norm. — Probably not, because Apple doesn’t really chase the enterprise much. But I can already see many great enterprise uses for this thing.
10. Tablets have never caught on. — That’s the point of the iPad, to catch on where they never have before by not just making a notebook without a keyboard.
I have a HP tablet, I don’t use in the tablet mode, it is quirky. I have replaced it with a Dell netbook, but still tote the HP around for the DVD.
An Ipad is not meant to replace your computer, its meant as an adjunct. I’d consider getting one if it didn’t require a high monthly service charge. Right now I love my kindle because I get better reception and can down load books, do email, listen to music and play games, though not in color, better than on my computer because all I have is Hughes net, which stinks. I could never down load a whole book on Hughes Net. I’m thinking of dropping the Hughes and just going with ATT for the computer, as well.
I love that — no Flash as a reason, because, y’know, all employers love it when employees sit around watching online videos.
Can you give me an example of the iPad filling a need in the enterprise that existing technology cannot address?