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Anecdotal evidence: the iPad has completely replaced the laptop for my girlfriend. She hasn't opened up her laptop in months. She uses it mostly for email, for
by swombat 16y ago
Anecdotal evidence: the iPad has completely replaced the laptop for my girlfriend. She hasn't opened up her laptop in months. She uses it mostly for email, for editing and sending presentations and documents via Keynote/Numbers/Pages/Dropbox, and for interacting with the numerous websites which she needs to deal with.
Since she spends a lot of her days on the move and doesn't like to work at a desk, the iPad has been a godsend for her. Before, she used to have to carry her craptop around and plug it in all the time to get power. Now, she just carries her iPad, and usually doesn't even bother to take the power supply with her, because the battery lasts so long. And she can use it on the bus, on the tube, etc.
- larrykubin 16y agoSame with my wife who is a home health speech therapist. I got her an iPad for xmas and she hasn't opened her laptop since. It is convenient to take with her in the car, she can keep a large calendar of appointments and jot notes on her patients, logs all of her hours and does invoicing, can use it as a big map to find her patients' houses, has large visual references of medications and anatomy, and patients can easily do activities on it. Then she gets home and kicks back on the couch or in bed and reads some message boards, watches some YouTube or Netflix videos, or plays some casual games.
- holman 16y agoI really wish I could do this. As a developer who programs, I'm still pretty tied to a laptop or desktop to do the work I need to do. But I yearn for the freedom to get rid of all that complexity and live off of just an iPad. Maybe we'll get there eventually and building rich apps on iOS (or equivalent) will make sense. Or maybe I'll just have to become a rich VC and only need email and Keynote. Both of those scenarios would work for me.