I find my computers essential for writing and communicating. That is e-mails, my blog and composing essays, notes and recording some of my thoughts. As far as I know the IPad does none of these things. It also does not have a phone or a camera. Can it process pictures like my computers can?
The IPad is also a weird size. How do you carry it around? A backpack? It does not fit into a purse easily. And could it not get damaged loose in a backpack or purse?
So I’m not impressed.
Eve's Peeves 
April 6, 2010 at 1:02 pm |
You can record your thoughts on the iPad as text or via the voice app. I tend to use the Notes app much as I’d record my thoughts on an index card.
I use the WordPress app to publish blog entries on my iPhone. Its pretty good. It lets me post photos and write [short] articles while I’m out and about, far far away from my computer. I too am disappointed by the lack of a camera. I will still have a computer at home on a desk. Where the iPad will truly shine is propped on the counter in the kitchen with a recipe displayed, and on my nightstand, and in my (now much lighter) backpack while traveling.
April 7, 2010 at 7:23 pm |
[…] not a writing tool. Out of the question. This concerns Jeff Jarvis, rightly so. This is something my mother observed when I demoed it to her on Saturday. Howard Weaver writes that not everyone is a writer. […]