As someone who runs an IT department and has tested these things pretty extensively this article is uninformed. To address his points... On Resentment: No I

As someone who runs an IT department and has tested these things pretty extensively this article is uninformed. To address his points... On Resentment: No IT department in their right mind acts because "users might resent us if we don't". You try to make the users as happy as possible but resentment is part of the job. Because people discover cool things all the time that just aren't feasible given a corporate environment (web based office suites are the perfect example of something users want and I'd love to implement but since the data privacy guarantees aren't what they need to be it can't be done). On Functionality: So far we've found the iPad doesn't present many functionality gains. The approach I've taken is a "try before you buy" strategy. Which is I have an iPad that I lend to people who want one. In order to get it they have to give me their laptops. Then after a week if they want to keep the iPad in place of their laptop I let them. Thus far no one's kept the iPad. Mainly because it lacks a full version of office and it lacks Flash. That's not to say there aren't uses. We've deployed 5 iPads at this point to people who just needed to view their data using Box.Net. But those were people who didn't already have a laptop and we still get complaints about the iPad's limited functionality (even ofter loading the full iWork suite) To drive home the point let me quickly address his individual scenarios... Constant Connectivity: Users who need this are better served with smartphones. Constant Connectivity doesn't help if the person chooses to leave the iPad in their car because they don't want to carry it around. Data Access: This is the only point I agree with form-based data entry: In our tests a person who can type 80 wpm drops to 13 on an iPad. So unless those forms are really, really short this isn't a valid point (though I've been testing a Motorola Xoom because it has Voice Recognition accessible in every app and the results are promising) simple note taking: Again see the previous point. The notes better be very short. Presentations: Even though the amount of work to transfer a presentation to an iPad is reasonably small it's still more work than unplugging your laptop, shutting the clamshell and carrying it to the conference room. Plus, in my experience most people finish their presentations about 30 seconds before the meeting anyway.