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I wonder who at mega bank and hedge fund isn't using excel... My experience at mega bank is that the IT department is often delusional about what business user

• hnbear 4y ago
  There are plenty of depts with a good iPad use case, typically those with very standard workflows and few apps. Think about HR who just need Zoom/Meet/WebEx, Greenhouse (or whatever ATS), and email+calendars. Office admin, customer support, etc. all have simple needs that benefit from a really nice, but easily controlled and secured device. Also, don’t underestimate how much “the Spotify app works” will entice people too. Yeah, you won’t convert all the quants, engineers, etc but they aren’t the target. That said, in my experience they love the iPad as a second screen that’s very portable, in contrast to the high powered very unportable workstation. The biggest factor for iPad adoption is really: “is there an app”. Particularly with SaaS tools there’s often a decent which lends itself to iPad usage.
• hnews_account_1 4y ago
  Yeah this sounds ridiculous. I work at a large asset manager which is constantly upgrading tech after being hamstrung on the budget for many many years. Everyone gets an iPad if you ask for it and a lot of folks who travel need it for making notes in conferences etc. I don’t have a traveling job but I could still get one but it is useless for almost anything beyond doodling. I generally take meetings from my desk so I don’t even use a notebook in most cases and just type it up on my laptop. I did get a separate desktop because I have dev work that requires a lot of compute power from time to time but I manage with those two devices and have never felt anything lacking.