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Corporate IT departments have always been reticent on Apple gear. This is how Apple can get App Store apps and enterprise sales in through the back door. Keynot

Corporate IT departments have always been reticent on Apple gear. This is how Apple can get App Store apps and enterprise sales in through the back door. Keynote on the iPad is the gateway drug for sales teams.

prawn 17y ago
If you're in a boardroom meeting, it will be far too small, surely? The main opportunity would be for roving sales which aren't all that corporate and usually more about hawkers pestering local businesses off the street.
- jedwhite 17y ago
  Yeah, I don't think it would work too well for boardroom presos - unless there is an attachment/wireless connector for a projector (which you'd guess is likely eventually). But for one-on-one presos, or for showing things to a very small group (2 people maybe) it would make a lot of sense. ie it's an intimate presentationn tool.
  - DougBTX 17y ago
    There is support for a 1024 x 768 VGA adapter, though the intimate angle probably wins out regardless.
  - prawn 17y ago
    Even presenting site designs to two people at a small table, I will use a 24" LCD rather than a 15" laptop screen because the laptop is a bit too small. The iPad could be passed around, sure, but outside of showing someone something while standing around, I don't think this will be a killer application for it.
- patio11 17y ago
  The sales guys at my day job are going to have them within a week of release here, I guarantee you. They're not pestering local businesses off the street, they're showing up at the university we've done business with for a decade and soliciting opinions from seven decisionmakers in four departments over the course of the day, no three in the same room. Rather than waste the first 10 minutes of their meeting getting their laptops booted up and projectors sorted, they can just flip open the saved mockup and say "Is this what you had in mind? Oh, by the by, I've got something new to show you. Have you ever considered getting the university a ..."
  - netcan 17y ago
    Well said. This is a tool I think that sales people will love. A lot of sales people like to use book shaped visual aids (like books, for example). It encourages the right kind of gestures and positioning. You hold the pad while the guy looks at it. They look at it while the sales guy looks at them. You can pass it around.

prawn 17y ago

If you're in a boardroom meeting, it will be far too small, surely? The main opportunity would be for roving sales which aren't all that corporate and usually more about hawkers pestering local businesses off the street.

jedwhite 17y ago
Yeah, I don't think it would work too well for boardroom presos - unless there is an attachment/wireless connector for a projector (which you'd guess is likely eventually). But for one-on-one presos, or for showing things to a very small group (2 people maybe) it would make a lot of sense. ie it's an intimate presentationn tool.
- DougBTX 17y ago
  There is support for a 1024 x 768 VGA adapter, though the intimate angle probably wins out regardless.
- prawn 17y ago
  Even presenting site designs to two people at a small table, I will use a 24" LCD rather than a 15" laptop screen because the laptop is a bit too small. The iPad could be passed around, sure, but outside of showing someone something while standing around, I don't think this will be a killer application for it.
patio11 17y ago
The sales guys at my day job are going to have them within a week of release here, I guarantee you. They're not pestering local businesses off the street, they're showing up at the university we've done business with for a decade and soliciting opinions from seven decisionmakers in four departments over the course of the day, no three in the same room. Rather than waste the first 10 minutes of their meeting getting their laptops booted up and projectors sorted, they can just flip open the saved mockup and say "Is this what you had in mind? Oh, by the by, I've got something new to show you. Have you ever considered getting the university a ..."
- netcan 17y ago
  Well said. This is a tool I think that sales people will love. A lot of sales people like to use book shaped visual aids (like books, for example). It encourages the right kind of gestures and positioning. You hold the pad while the guy looks at it. They look at it while the sales guy looks at them. You can pass it around.