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Originally Posted by wizwor
The jury is still out on apps. I have yet to discover an app for the iPad which would compel me to spend the extra couple hundred bucks.
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I agree with just about everything you said, but I will say there are a few apps that I dearly miss on the iPad;
1) Flipboard: there's simply no better app for consuming social network news. I use twitter for work and sorting through the information on Flipboard is just worlds apart from reading it on some other client. I can't wait until there's a really good knock-off or version for Android.
2) Penultimate: absolutely one of the best note-taking, idea-sketching apps around. Well designed, simple to use, lovely interface. MaplePaint is a decent substitute, but not quite as good.
3) Corkulous: amazing project/idea management app. The ability to stick pictures/notes on to a large "cork board" and move them around, label them, etc. just makes planning everything from home renovation to x-mas shopping so easy.
These are three apps I absolutely use all the time, and they're all very well designed, but I wonder if they would be as good on a 7" screen. The way they all use the screen size is kinda what makes them good. Not that I would give up the portability of the Kindle Fire - I just can't really use the iPad for out-of-the-office settings. But for those three apps, I may always have to return to my iPad.