3 Weeks of iPad: Some observations
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3 Weeks of iPad: Some observations
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#3"In fact, I am trying to migrate as much of my communications applications (twitter, mail, social web) to the iPad and leave my computer for actual, productive work."
+1 on that. At home, I basically use my iPad to do all my consumption and "light" communication. For development and highly intensive typing, I'll switch over to my laptop.
When I'm relaxing on a weekend, I find that the iPad is about 80% of my computer time. This has been a huge shift.
On the other hand, I haven't been able to effectively use the iPad at meetings. I had thought maybe I could take notes on it, but it just doesn't flow as well as when I'm typing on real keyboard. However, it does rock for demos.
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#4"In fact, I am trying to migrate as much of my communications applications (twitter, mail, social web) to the iPad and leave my computer for actual, productive work." +1 on that. At home, I basically use my iPad to do all my consumption and "light" communication. For development and highly intensive typing, I'll switch over to my laptop. When I'm relaxing on a weekend, I find that the iPad is about 80% of my computer…
That's pretty much been my experience as well.
Unless I'm working on work work, I barely touch my laptop at home anymore. And I barely have to use the keyboard and mouse to interact with the mac mini connected to my TV, which is a huge win.
I still use my livescribe for meetings (http://www.livescribe.com/).
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#5I haven't had an iPad for very long, but I love, love, love it for web browsing. It's like you're flying over your web pages.
However, I don't like how iPad Safari handles "tabs". I would much prefer traditional tabs where I could select or close a tab in only a single tap, instead of the three taps that are required now.
Regardless, it looks like I can finally retire my Newton.
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#6"In fact, I am trying to migrate as much of my communications applications (twitter, mail, social web) to the iPad and leave my computer for actual, productive work." +1 on that. At home, I basically use my iPad to do all my consumption and "light" communication. For development and highly intensive typing, I'll switch over to my laptop. When I'm relaxing on a weekend, I find that the iPad is about 80% of my computer…
Totally agree. The iPad is my "couch-surfing" computer of choice these days. You really can curl up with this sucker or lie on your back comfortably while reading.
I've been using it for most of my reading (newspapers, books, magazines). A lot of my surfing and a lot more video consumption than I had expected.
The sketching apps are great. I bought a little stylus to help out where fingers fall short. I'm doing a lot more drawing than ever b/c of the facility and convenience of drawing on the pad.
The comic book readers are great (I use comic reader mobi). I hadn't read a comic or graphic novel in years, but they just looks so gorgeous on the ipad that I've been voraciously catching up on various comics that I would have otherwise ignored.
I find myself using the iphone much less when at home and the laptop has been relegated to "work"/upright/serious stuff.
iPad, for me, is something of a leisure computer. If that makes any sense...
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#7 iPhone apps suck on the iPad. Not because the iPhone
simulation is bad, or the apps are bad, but because the
moment you run an iPhone app on an iPad screen you
realise exactly why the iPad is not just a “big iPhone”.
App design is very different for each of these devices * .Re: 3 Weeks of iPad: Some observations
#8How do you guys do it? Admittedly, I returned my iPad after a week or so. But I just found it to be a lot less productive, even for consumption, than my laptop.
For example, I have about 20 total tabs open right now, on two instances of the browser. Why two? I can snap the two side x side whenever I want to compare two pages, or have them both up (this is useful, when I'm watching video, and browsing at the same time).
Do most people just browse one page at a time?
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#9How do you guys do it? Admittedly, I returned my iPad after a week or so. But I just found it to be a lot less productive, even for consumption, than my laptop. For example, I have about 20 total tabs open right now, on two instances of the browser. Why two? I can snap the two side x side whenever I want to compare two pages, or have them both up (this is useful, when I'm watching video, and browsing at the same time…
Probably not most people, but I try to. Having 20 tabs open means that your brain must keep track of all of them. Having only 1 or 2 instead is a different story.
Re: 3 Weeks of iPad: Some observations
#10How do you guys do it? Admittedly, I returned my iPad after a week or so. But I just found it to be a lot less productive, even for consumption, than my laptop. For example, I have about 20 total tabs open right now, on two instances of the browser. Why two? I can snap the two side x side whenever I want to compare two pages, or have them both up (this is useful, when I'm watching video, and browsing at the same time…
Agreed. I'm also surprised how people find it comfortable. I found it physically painful to use relative to a laptop, due to the awkward head/hands positioning, needing to constantly slide my fingers instead of just hitting page down, etc.