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I agree that Gruber is wrong but only in his details. The iPad should have been much more than it is and, although I have seen it revolutionize the way that man
by dkonofalski 7y ago
I agree that Gruber is wrong but only in his details. The iPad should have been much more than it is and, although I have seen it revolutionize the way that many field workers are able to do their jobs, I still think it could have been more.
On another note, I also agree with the sentiment that people should try to force themselves to use it for a bit. I used to work for a company that did corporate software/hardware training and we'd always get people that were switching from a PC to a Mac that never bothered to even attempt to use their Macs differently and constantly complained about their company forcing them to switch. Once they stopped trying to right-click on everything and got used to dragging and dropping and just trying to discover things, they always got won over and preferred their Macs. This was during the early days of OS X and reached peak around Snow Leopard. I really like the newer macOS releases too but I wish they would focus more on fixing bugs and driving back to that discoverability that really made things intuitive to use.
- Terretta 7y agoMy guess, it’s something about how a developer team or UX team experience the device themselves. Given the mockery of the “what’s a computer?” ad, I’m guessing most are spending a majority of their time on other devices, and not living with this enough to envision the experiences it’s more than capable of providing. Failure of imagination vs. failure of technology.
- blt 7y agoI like your point about field workers. The iPad is a great replacement for a clipboard with a multi-page form.
- dkonofalski 7y agoYeah... one of the things I'm leading in my org is the changeover from paper forms and surveys for field workers to completely digital forms with automations for recording, reporting, and email. It's seriously been a game-changer for some groups.