6 ms·
"Namely, the sort of person who really doesn't know what they're doing on a computer, and only uses their PC for very basic tasks." From my personal experience
by harpastum 17y ago
"Namely, the sort of person who really doesn't know what they're doing on a computer, and only uses their PC for very basic tasks."
From my personal experience of being "that computer guy" for countless friends, relatives, and random people on the street, that statement accurately describes over 90% of the home computer market (i.e. everything but business/professional use).
- armandososa 17y agoI don't know, 95% of the PC userss that I know, just want to watch youtube videos and talk on Live Messenger (or whatever they are calling it this days).
- pyre 17y agoReally? No one in that 90% does something like build a resume in Word/OOWriter?
- rinich 17y agoAnd you can't make a resume in iWork? I think that part of Apple's announcement was more significant to a certain crowd than we're giving it credit for.
- adw 17y agoIf you can hook up a printer, this does everything my sister (she's a social worker) needs to do with a computer, cheaper and more reliably.
- rinich 17y ago(That actually gets me thinking — do we know anything about the iPad's printer compatibility? Did I miss some announcement about that?)
- adw 17y agoWe don't. Looks like the big gap in the featureset to me.
- telemachos 17y agoI work at a school considering a laptop program. This was our first question, and we couldn't find anything in specs that explicitly talked about this. I have to assume that you will be able to print wirelessly, but there's that tiny fear that somehow you can't as a protective feature for the ebooks. Silly question, but can you print from a Kindle or a Nook?
- rinich 17y agoI've never seen a way to do so from a Kindle. I'd imagine it would be risky for them to offer that service: What's there to stop you from printing your own book?
- LogicHoleFlaw 17y agoThe cost of paper and binding, for one. That's why physical books are so rarely pirated when compared to digital media. Printing a few pages sounds perfectly reasonable to me though.
- baxident 17y agoI can print wirelessly on my MacBook, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't be able to on an iPad.
- pyre 17y agoExcept that the iPad runs iPhone OS not Mac OS. Well, I guess you could be running the iPhone OS on your MacBook...