iPads, tablets... Does anyone use them for WORK? (Or anything REAL?)
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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).
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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.
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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
When holding the iPad I use two thumbs. When I'm Typing With Intent, the 'pad is on the desk and I'm typing with two full hands worth of type-ready fingers (which for me makes a grand total of 4 fingers! And a thumb. Don't forget the thumb.) Splitting the keyboard (put two fingers on it, pull fingers apart) makes things easier on the bigger iPad
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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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 my Windows Surface tablet extensively for work. With OneNote, it's superb for preparing for meetings, taking notes during them and then writing them up afterwards. Throw in Word and PowerPoint too and it's extremely useful. Also got a lot of mileage from it when writing revision notes for an exam I was revising for recently, taking it down to Starbucks for a change of scene. For that, the touch cover keyboard was invaluable.
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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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Windows is not a tablet. You are excused :P
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I use my Windows Surface tablet extensively for work. With OneNote, it's superb for preparing for meetings, taking notes during them and then writing them up afterwards. Throw in Word and PowerPoint too and it's extremely useful. Also got a lot of mileage from it when writing revision notes for an exam I was revising for recently, taking it down to Starbucks for a change of scene. For that, the touch cover keyboard was invaluable.
Windows is not a tablet. You are excused :P
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Maybe I should have excluded geeks from the original topic. Real work, by non nerds.
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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.
jschell wrote:
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.By FAR, my favorite reply...
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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 are currently writing custom software for the surface so that all of our sales people can walk around the stores with tablets and take customers orders without being tied to kiosks or using pen/paper. Currently this is implemented in one of our stores, but is rapidly expanding to all of them.