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Originally Posted by kjk
I really think this is the key with the iPhone OS approach-it was obvious from the iPad demos that the "one screen paradigm" was the focus.
Everyone assumes the iPhone uses that paradigm because of the total lack of screen real-estate. The iPad shows that it is the new paradigm, period, for Apple's mobile OS.
Will that please everyone? Of course not. People accustomed to having 5-6 programs running at once, juggling them around, etc... are obviously not the target market.
But for those who work more like you, it is going to be THE way to interact with devices in the future. I can't wait to see how it all develops.
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Having many programs running at once, only seems to me, IMHO, to avoid the startup time associated with the apps. I find on my ipod, I can easily hit the little button at the bottom, and launch an app so quickly, that it is virutally the same, and often it will still be where I left off, so it is a flase tradeoff in my opinion.
I also think the poster below hit the nail on the head. I envision using this when I am not at work, at work I have a full blown laptop (which incidentally I could do most of my job on an ipad, but that is a different story).
At home, I keep in touch via email, read articles, and other things I would like to do from my easy-chair, not hunched over a desk, which I do for 8 hours a day.
Also, I am hoping it will hold and display a lot of technical pdfs, which, while mainly used at work, I feel the urge to double-check on something I am thinking of while at home, but that would be too heavy of a stack to haul around, and again, I don't want to read them on a laptop.
If I could somehow hook in RSS to our Doc mgmt system to retrieve updated docs in our organization, it would be an added bonus.