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Thats Right, Sniff the Glue!!!
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Keep in mind that I'm still playing with this so don't have it 100% figured out, but I will do my best to answer your questions. And for the record, I have been using iPads since the first one came out. Answers will be in red.
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10-27-2012, 02:21 PM | #2 | |
'Tis my eye!
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Having used Consumer Preview for a few months on my regular old desktop, I felt like "WTF is this?" Without a touchscreen, the UI doesn't seem to serve any real, useful purpose. |
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I see where you might be coming from on Excel, but anything beyond what I would do with a calculator I do using Soulver. If it's too complex for that, I probably want a 10 key anyway so I'll wait until I get to a proper desktop. PowerPoint is a disaster. I'll take Keynote any day of the week and I think that if you do a non-trivial amount of public speaking it's worth getting a Mac just so you can use it. Quote:
On my iPad if I really need to get into something on a Windows desktop, I've got a VM that lives in a datacenter so I can remote to it whenever. It's been months since I've needed that. Quote:
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By splitting the difference they're only going to discourage enterprises from upgrading depending on how much training they're obligated to give to their users. Overall it sounds like the most compelling tablet to come out since the iPad that won't just disappear. I'm excited to play with the hardware, but I doubt that the stuff I use all the time will ever come over to that platform. Examples: OmniFocus, TextExpander, Instapaper, OmniOutliner. Each of those come from developers that have been focused on OS X for years. In the case of Omni, they were developers for NeXT. |
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