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Love some of the comments criticizing the author for his post-they just can't accept that he could possibly do "work" on an iPad...they are even denigrating what he considers work  |
Work?!? Let us read what he wrote:
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What computing does one do on the road? My needs are admittedly more modest than many business travels. My only two critical functions are being able to write and save text and, when internet avails, check my email.
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You can do that with a smartphone. I hardly call that work. Try interchanging office documents with other computer systems are running true business apps that a typical company uses--not play apps available for iPhones and iPads.
He later laments:
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Beyond mere typing, I had hoped to use the iPad as a backup for my photos and videos from my new Canon T2i, but the official Camera Connection Kit is nowhere to be found. I ordered one from Apple, but it is at least a month backordered. It would have been great not just to use the iPad as backup for my images, but to preview them on its larger screen.
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My HP Mini not only connects to my Canon T1i but allows me to control the camera right out of the box. Something I doubt the iPad will ever do. I don't use it to merely look at photos and videos I take or back them up, I use it to change settings, focus on stars at night (which is difficult and tedious without a computer), and completely control the camera and the photographic environment.