iPads, tablets... Does anyone use them for WORK? (Or anything REAL?)
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
I use the calendar on mine, and I have installed several apps for things like document editing, drawing, weather, the cloud, etc. I also have Angry Birds (all of them), as well as Amazing Alex and Bad Piggies. I also have Python on there, along with Codea and a syntax highlighting text editor called Textastic. I do have a few other apps, mostly just for extending things. I have a graphing calculator there as well. I also browse CodeProject on it as well. Just don't like the 'keyboard' on that thing, and I am thinking of getting an external one for it.
Bob Dole
The internet is a great way to get on the net.
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
I can see why you're getting upset. However, I would like to say that there is a niche for these tablets to become useful in a work environment. My buddy has told me on numerous occasions that when he has to run an inventory in a no-network zone he first writes everything down on a piece of paper. Then when he returns to his cubicle he writes down again everything in an excel spreadsheet and then upload it. He has made a mention of this to his supervisor and they are in the works of making a phone app for this and as soon as he is in wireless range all the info will be uploaded without him worrying about it. In his stressful environment this is much needed. On the other hand in my work environment having a tablet is not practical at all. If you have one its most likely for entertainment purposes only.
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
I used to have pretty much the same opinion but have recently started looking at some areas of our work (servicing aircraft engines) where they make a lot of sense. We need to reference electronic manuals, send emails, take photographs, use our ERP system for updating component records, all whilst clambering around / under a 3-ton mess of cables, pipes and very expensive metalwork. A tablet or pad easily wins over a laptop in this instance, it's just sad that they are perceived as executive tools, to be used by executive errrr, let's just say executives. Andy B
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
Great for reading e-mail and using stuff like skype. Awesome for reading comics and PDFs. Most used for playing games and streaming video, either from various real computers around the house, or from Internet TV servers. At work? Useless, compared to the computer on my desk.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
We use them at CodeProject every day, all day. In fact all night and all weekend too. They have become absolutely indispensable to us.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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We use them at CodeProject every day, all day. In fact all night and all weekend too. They have become absolutely indispensable to us.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Well put them down and get some real work done
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Well put them down and get some real work done
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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ii_noname_ii wrote:
Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment.
Not really. Tablets are used a lot in industries as a replacement for laptops (most of the time they are used for simple data entry) and paper documents (no need to have binders after binders of documentations. They are becoming standard in plane for pilots; they are starting to be used in agriculture, they are used in medical environments, ... You don't see much of that because those are using "professional grade" software, not a cheap $3.99 app. iPad in Business[^], there might be the equivalent for other tablets (asus, samsung, microsoft).
Nihil obstat
I have a friend that works at Jeppesen making one of the maps for airplanes. I can't tell you how surprised I was when he told me about it, but for them it was a nobrainer. Not having to bother about the hardware is worth a lot for them.
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
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We use them at CodeProject every day, all day. In fact all night and all weekend too. They have become absolutely indispensable to us.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
We use them at CodeProject every day, all day. In fact all night and all weekend too. They have become absolutely indispensable to us.
What exactly do you use it for? Check work mail? Remote into an actual machine and do dev? I can't see any real use for an iPad at work. :~
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Chris Maunder wrote:
We use them at CodeProject every day, all day. In fact all night and all weekend too. They have become absolutely indispensable to us.
What exactly do you use it for? Check work mail? Remote into an actual machine and do dev? I can't see any real use for an iPad at work. :~
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Email, Calendar, meeting notes, looking up stuff, taking notes, editing google docs, and then for dev it's purely for testing. I also do all my news reading on the iPad (which is why I also have an iPad mini). In general, though, the ability to just pull out the iPad wherever I am and plow through a bunch of emails is huge, and the ability to do a little surface wiht a decent sized screen (no, not even the Galaxy has a big enough screen for decent surfing) makes a big difference in getting things done.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Email, Calendar, meeting notes, looking up stuff, taking notes, editing google docs, and then for dev it's purely for testing. I also do all my news reading on the iPad (which is why I also have an iPad mini). In general, though, the ability to just pull out the iPad wherever I am and plow through a bunch of emails is huge, and the ability to do a little surface wiht a decent sized screen (no, not even the Galaxy has a big enough screen for decent surfing) makes a big difference in getting things done.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Interesting. I just hate one finger - one handed typing though.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Interesting. I just hate one finger - one handed typing though.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
One finger? I touch type on the iPad. It's very fast for me.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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One finger? I touch type on the iPad. It's very fast for me.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Both hands or one hand? On a 10" screen's on-screen key-pad (which probably only takes half that space), I can't see how you can type using both hands.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Chris Maunder wrote:
We use them at CodeProject every day, all day. In fact all night and all weekend too. They have become absolutely indispensable to us.
What exactly do you use it for? Check work mail? Remote into an actual machine and do dev? I can't see any real use for an iPad at work. :~
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
Web Servers, obviously. Those old Palm Pilots were getting hard to support.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Web Servers, obviously. Those old Palm Pilots were getting hard to support.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Both hands or one hand? On a 10" screen's on-screen key-pad (which probably only takes half that space), I can't see how you can type using both hands.
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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Nish Sivakumar wrote:
I can't see how you can type using both hands.
Maybe really small hands?
jschell wrote:
Maybe really small hands?
Possible!
Regards, Nish
My technology blog: voidnish.wordpress.com
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So, working in huge offices, hundreds of people... And NOONE uses any form of tablet. It's just too impractical, cumbersome, etc.. Yet, a handful of silly managers keep on bringing up tablet ideas to me. How I should be making this and that for tablets. BUT, noone uses those shits! Moreover, would you really trust apple or google, who have a long history of snooping on people, gathering TMI (too much information), tracking users and usage, with critical & restricted business documents? Synchronizing documents in the clouds, sending them over internet..? They're not even that portable. Anyway, seeing hundreds of office workers, I still don't see anyone using it. Whether it be for notes in meetings, etc.. Well, noone uses them -at all. The ONLY usage I've ever heard of that seems reasonable is to entertain 5 year-olds with silly games. Added the "rant" button now, because I'm reaching rage levels over these over-hyped, over-advertized, over-blogged (mostly paid ads in reality), pieces of sssshhhhhiiiiAAAAAARRRG. Tablets are like the windows millenium of computing. A failed experiment. Good to entertain children, good for wannabe-a-modern managers who try to seem technically interested and up to date. I'd burn them all (the tablets, not the children and managers. lol).
ii_noname_ii wrote:
Does anyone use them for WORK? (Or anything REAL?)
I suspect that many people that spent the money on one with the intent to use it at work and actually managed to find something at work to use it with would rationalize that it makes them "more" productive. Just as many people rationalize the same thing about almost all non-trivial new technologies and programming APIs.
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ii_noname_ii wrote:
Does anyone use them for WORK? (Or anything REAL?)
I suspect that many people that spent the money on one with the intent to use it at work and actually managed to find something at work to use it with would rationalize that it makes them "more" productive. Just as many people rationalize the same thing about almost all non-trivial new technologies and programming APIs.
I play Angry Birds on mine. Does that count as work? Seems like a lot of work to kill those pigs.