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I'm curious what will you guys actually use the iPad for?

It would make a nice tv guide if sky updated their app for it. Browsing tv listings drives me crazy on the iphones screen. The ipad would pay for itself in money saved not buying the radio times in only 5-6 years....

Ye, no ipad for me!
 
Cinemagic said:
Without Flash? And Apple just pulled a ton of "adult" oriented apps. So no porn apps for you on the iPad. :(
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Mobile Safari. I trust porn sites will make themselves available to the throngs of people looking for their wares. They've been on the cutting edge of technology, anyhow, since at least VCR days. Heck someone probably figured out porn on player piano rolls.
 
I'm super excited for music apps. There's some terrifically creative ones for the iphone/touch. I think the expansive multi-touch interface should breed some really exciting apps. That alone makes me tempted.
 
I'd like to see apps for toddlers/kids. interactive puzzles, games, children's books my 2 yr old son and I can play with.
 
I have two types of days - office days and interstate/international days. My non-office days will go somethign like this:

- get up at 4:30AM - make sure teh iPad is synched and my latest TV shows are good to go
- If traveling internationally - wil make sure there are some pics of the boy
- Car picks me up around 5:15 and I can read the "paper" on the iPad on the route to the airport
- At the airport I can check my work email to make sure everything is ready for the day ahead including reviewing some reports and presentations
- In flight I can read a book or watch TV comfortably
- Arrive at the remote office and go into meetings all day where the iPad is used to take notes or share documents for review
- Back in the car to the airport I can review tomorrow's diary
- Again in flight I catch up on some TV or read a book

Finally we are home again and I put the iPad into the dock to be recharged for my train ride to the office the next day...

In all of that I haven't missed flash and have happily multitasked - by switching between apps - multitasking isnt simply about running multiple apps - it is about managing multiple concurrent outcomes. I don't see the iPad as limiting this.

I have also hopefully done this on a single charge and my laptop hasnt moved from my desk at the office.
 
I work in book publishing and I'm constantly printing marketing documents and taking them to meetings. I write my changes on the paper, take it back to my desk, update the electronic version, then throw the paper away. Just a wasteful and time-consuming system. To have a slim, paper-sized computer on which I can check my email and open and update documents in meetings is nothing less than a dream come true. I work on hundreds of books a year and information management is a huge problem. A laptop form factor just won't work for me for several reason--typing would be disruptive, the screen is too small, it creates a wall between you and the other people in the meeting. The iPad could easily pass as a clipboard and not be the distraction that an laptop would be.
Not even to mention all the great non-work related things it can do! I can't wait!
 
Interested in your post, Mondano, because I am an author, and am curious to hear the opinions of someone in the other end of the publishing industry.

I am going to buy one of these for a whole raft of reasons. First of all, whether we like it or not, e-publishing is about to go mainstream, and I see more point in exploring it with something like an Ipad that I know will work beautifully with my work computers than something like a Kindle or Sony E-reader that only does one thing. From a practical point of view, I can see myself taking it around the house with me, reading and editing my manuscripts, sitting up in bed to work (oh, so much easier than a laptop), throwing it in my handbag when I am out and about, taking it with me on business trips. (I am a great devotee of the hardcover book, but oh, the bliss of being able to carry seven or eight books with me onto a plane without adding kilos to my luggage allowance.)

I have never had the slightest desire to own an iPhone or an iPod touch. I have a perfectly good iPod for my music, and I have a phone that works just fine for when I want to make calls or snap off a photo. The screen on those things is just too fiddly for anything else, but the iPad I can really see as being truly useful. I could not care less about Flash, or the MacOSX not being included. As long as it will run Pages and Numbers, play movies when I am travelling, allow me to read documents, get my email and show a few pictures, I will be happy; and I know it will do all those things and a heap more beside I haven't even thought of.

My first Apple computer was a II+ in about 1980. I've been using them for my work ever since and am more excited about this than anything else they have ever introduced.
 
Same thing I already use my iPod for. My morning routine is to get up get some tea and a granola bar and sit down with my iPod on the couch and read news feeds (google reader) and news sites (cnn, fox, al jazeera, etc..) while I wake up. Other times though I might use it like I do a handheld gaming device (PSP or DS).

While I have a desktop as my main pc and a laptop as my mobile/backup machine. I find the laptop too unwieldy to sit in my lap on the couch in the mornings and the iPod's screen is awfully small. iPad fills the gap.
 
I'll use an iPad to save power.
Mobile home with 2 x 125W Solar panels >> Bank of 12 volt batteries >> 300W Sine Wave inverter >> 85W MacBook Pro. = Low power on dull days.

A 10W iPad is a better fit for everyday use.
No doubt some of the iPhone car charger manufacturers will bring out one for the iPad so I can cut out the Inverter and go straight to the 12 volt car adapter.

....... and a darn good excuse to get one :)
 
Doing what i do with a netbook, browsing, writing mails and more if they come up with cool apps, at home, Starbucks, work maybe, it's pretty handy as a light laptop to take to work and when travelling, still i'm waiting for the price drop
 
Alvi said:
Doing what i do with a netbook, browsing, writing mails and more if they come up with cool apps, at home, Starbucks, work maybe, it's pretty handy as a light laptop to take to work and when travelling, still i'm waiting for the price drop
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+1. I'm using the iPad as a netbook alongside my MBP. :p
 
I'm going to be using my for couch browsing. For meetings, note taking, ect.

I'm also going to be a huge jerk about it. I've already had people ask if they can see it when it comes. That's not going to go well for them.
 
PDF presentations teaching professional education seminars
Email
Pictures
Music
Surfing Internet
Contacts with mobile me
Calendar
Games
Apps
Play
Play
Play
:):p:apple:
 
I think music production, midi controller, and DJ apps will be huge on the iPad. Look for integration with Ableton Live, Traktor, Logic, Pro Tools, etc.
 
General Internet surfing, maybe some homework using the iWork Suite. And music. And all the games I've bought on the App Store. And taking notes. Quite a few things actually - useful little device. :)
 
Same thing I use my iPod Touch for... except for much bigger pages and without needing reading glasses.

With reading glasses, I've already read a couple books on either the Touch or the iPhone. Reading on the iPad will be so much nicer.

Also, full use of Windows 7, Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Redhat Linux... via RDP, VNC and ssh apps... from the comfy couch... and without needing a magnifying glass.
 
Flowbee said:
I think music production, midi controller, and DJ apps will be huge on the iPad. Look for integration with Ableton Live, Traktor, Logic, Pro Tools, etc.
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*drools*


ipad f.@#%& WHERE IS U !!!1!!!

"patience is virtue" yeah but it sucks!




I wonder how smooth fun apps like "gloop" and that water one where you swipe the screen and it ripples, is going to be on the iPad. Can't wait for apps and games being developed specifically for the iPad.

4 weeks.
 
I haven't seen anyone reply this way, but I'm a youth leader/youth pastor and if the books allow me to make my own notes, this is how I will read, study and teach from. Logos already has an app (and suspect it'll be workable on the iPad). Keynote...and I'm set.

I don't have an iPod touch, so this would be a whole new thing for me. I have a Mac w/ mobileme and this could be a winner for what I'm looking for.

Obviously, what everyone else mentioned (minus the porn) for couch use - surfing - emails - music - videos - etc...

The LogMeIn Ignition app looks interesting as well...
 
Kissaragi said:
It would make a nice tv guide if sky updated their app for it. Browsing tv listings drives me crazy on the iphones screen. The ipad would pay for itself in money saved not buying the radio times in only 5-6 years....

Ye, no ipad for me!
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Umm, whats wrong with the Sky Mag? Besides there is a Sky TV guide on the TV:D Its really easy!
 
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