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08-14-2011, 11:06 AM | #76 |
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Please note that CommonReader has needs that are different from other people here, he does productive work unlike anyone with an iPad/tablet... productive work requires at least a notebook... this is fact as stated...
Edit as CR not clear on his own words - Quote: "Some colleagues use iPads for reading papers and documents and for receiving mails. However, the very moment productive work has to be done they are reaching for their laptops." Simple implication, productive work is done on laptops not iPads... your words... and I don't even have an iPad, just an extreme dislike of blanket statements condescending to those who disagree... Last edited by elcreative; 08-14-2011 at 11:18 AM. |
08-14-2011, 11:13 AM | #77 |
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Perhaps there is a "comprehension skills" app available to help here?
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08-14-2011, 11:45 AM | #78 | |
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I haven't bothered with a tablet because it would be a fancy toy for me; it can't do the productive or creative work I use a computer for. It can't even do the productive work my kids need for their homework assignments, which pretty much just need a word processor & very limited graphic editing abilities. They're great consumption devices, including for a lot of business work. You can *read* what you need to on an iPad. You can send emails and do a lot of other communications. But nobody's said you can use one to create deliverable products, either for academic or professional purposes. Log sales? Sure. Manage a sales database? No. Track your hours on a project? Sure. Manage your company payroll? No. List deliverables and prices? Sure. Create an invoice that attaches to your client records? No. Make notes? Sure. Write a novel? No. (Except in the sense that, I suppose, someone could use Notepad or the equivalent to write a novel.) Read PDFs? Sure. Edit PDFs--change the image resolution, move text around, add & remove bookmarks, insert new scanned pages, run OCR, edit the metadata? No. View pictures? Sure. Sort a collection of pictures? Maybe. Burn a CD to hand to the client? No. What deliverable-to-the-paying-client work gets done on iPads or other tablets? |
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08-14-2011, 12:50 PM | #79 |
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I withdraw from the thread... all iPads and tablets are toys not worth using... in your opinions which are infinitely more valuable than those of people who are trying to point out that there is more than viewpoint in the world... got to go and finish proofing a Word doc on my Android tablet so I can deliver to my client and get paid... oh no, can't do that, you have spoken...
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http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...ad-corner.html Lawyers who use the Ipad http://www.tabletlegal.com/ipad-easy-lawyer/ Architects who use the Ipad http://www.tipb.com/2010/07/11/ipad-work-architect/ Doctors who use the Ipad: http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/02/...ient-care.html We haven't even looked at consultants, salespeople, real estate brokers-people who travel around making presentations for a living. What's astonishing is that a device that was designed with consumers in mind has so seized the imaginations of businesspeople. Steve Jobs (PBUH) said something to the effect that they designed the Ipad for consumers, but that business was "tearing it out of their hands". I think businesspersons are people too, and they want to use attractive gadgets in their daily lives, even if said devices aren't designed specifically for business use. Fortunately, the Ipad can be customized via software for business uses, "If you want to carry around updated medical records on rounds, the're an app for that. If you want an electronic aid to pick juries, there's an app for that, If you want to carry around a photo portfolio of your graphic designs, there's even an app for that" There's an app for lots of business uses in the App Store" Last edited by stonetools; 08-14-2011 at 02:13 PM. |
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08-14-2011, 01:46 PM | #82 | |
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Still, can't expect better from people who drop to general and personal insults... "Stupid fanboi-ism, seriously." Again your gratuitously offensive remarks... can't you pay attention as I've already said that I use desktop and notebook computers for work and fun but that there are equally viable uses for tablets, something you don't appear to accept... Edited to correct a cut'n'paste error from an email to a friend discussing the inanities in this thread... and a sincere apology for attributing a quote to you that belonged to Elfwreck... Last edited by elcreative; 08-14-2011 at 02:19 PM. Reason: Correcting quote copying error... |
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Again, I only stated that tablets aren't as flexible and powerful as laptops. It is easy to support this claim with numerous arguments. There is no reason to treat this simple statement about a piece of electronics as if I were questioning the family honour. |
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Can one edit PDF bookmarks, metadata and text on an iPad? Is there an app for editing tiff images inside an OCR correction program? I admit I got caught up in the argument and exaggerated. One can do production work on a tablet. I maintain that it's very limited, and a modern office can't replace all its laptops or destkops entirely with iPads--which would be the case, if they were "equally viable." |
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08-14-2011, 04:22 PM | #85 |
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I'm afraid "equally viable" as in capable of being used to complete productive tasks that will commonly be known as "work"... it does not mean the same... bats and birds have equally viable methods of flying but they are not the same... equal is the same. equally viable means equally usable in the workplace but not necessarily for the same things... I wouldn't care to use an iPad for running a nuclear power station but have no problems doing editing and proofing with an Android tablet...
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Lots of people are happy to sell me a set-top appliance running Linux, without offering me any way to access or redistribute the software. How is that not also a violation of the license? Secondly, this is not a problem with 'open source software', but with a particular open source license. http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/09/the-g...store-and-you/ Quote:
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At a minimum: word processing, image editing, OCR & correction thereof, and PDF editing. Spreadsheet functions would also be useful, especially the ability to copy/paste sections from a spreadsheet into other documents. Business management: nothing directly professional; have looked at what's available for managing home business & have assisted with accounting/invoicing at work. If the doc creation/production options I need exist in tablet format, I would *happily* get a tablet & bluetooth keyboard and switch to that. Somehow, I doubt it... Finereader doesn't have a full version for Mac, much less Android. |
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For tens of millions of people, a laptop - or desktop, for that matter - is just a toy. Most people who have a computer at home never use it for productive work aside from, maybe, writing the occasional e-mail. They use the home computer for internet and e-mail, and probably nothing else. The iPad is a good replacement for these people.
The conceit in this thread that people won't use an iPad because it's not useful for productive work - even if it were correct - has no bearing on how most people use their second computer. |
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My artistic friends create movies, either professionally or for YouTube. Others do serious photography. Neither of which can run well on even a laptop. You need big screens and lots of power for real work in these fields. Even my 93 year old grandfather uses Photoshop. My engineering peers are constantly tinkering. I know, myself, I have 3 different CAD programs on my computer, not to mention several programming languages. I'm not alone in this. I think it's really silly to assume 'most' people don't do power intensive things on their computers. |
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