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Re: [OM] olympus Digest, Vol 33, Issue 21 (was iPads)

Subject: Re: [OM] olympus Digest, Vol 33, Issue 21 (was iPads)
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:41:46 +0100
Brian

These 2 points are wrong, I'm afraid.  You can save to pdf and print with the 
current OS.  I can only think that Ken has not updated to the latest iOS.  It 
might originally have been the case, but each function is easy to do now.  
However, for the print function you will need to be connected to a wireless 
network, as far as I can make out.  I can't comment on the USD100 for business 
use, but that would depend entirely on what sort of business you want to run 
from a device with a 10" screen.

Andrew's point about its being a passive device is based on the premise that 
all you do is surf the Internet or read emails.  After a bit of practice I can 
use the touch-screen keyboard quite easily, but I can also connect my Bluetooth 
keyboard and type normally.

The iPad is a little computer whose functionality is enough to use as such, 
although the filing system is at present obscure.  I now use it largely instead 
of my laptop at work for database work, graphics and documents.  This morning, 
for instance, I used it to brief my students and fellow staff on the weather 
for today as the work network is down during the transition to a new system.

However, I make no comment about the wisdom or otherwise of issuing any sort of 
tablet to students.  It has always struck me that students should learn to 
write and to use computers for more technical requirements such as research or 
graphing,  But then that might because that's what I had to do at school, 
before computers turned up  . . . :-)

Chris

On 22 Jul 2011, at 13:51, Brian Swale wrote:

> Ken wrote
>> Without any joking, it literally takes about $100 USD in apps just to make
>> the iPad usable for moderate business use. Want to print something? That's
>> a paid app. Want to actually save PDF files? Paid app. The list goes on
>> and on.
> ( and a lot more besides)
> 
> What a useful can of worms this opened up.
> 
> Thanks everybody for the info.
> 
> Brian Swale. 
> -- 

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