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).
My day job is as a programmer analyst, but I am also a pastor. I use my iPad mini every day for reading. I also use it during services for my sermon/teaching notes. With Google Drive, I can edit/view documents wherever I am.
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I've only had mine since Christmas, so it's early days. But... I use it for book reading (technical in PDF and fiction in mobi/epub) and it is very useful - much lighter than the equivelent paper and at 7 inch, it fits in a pocket. I keep my calender, shopping list(s), contacts and music on it - which I used to keep on my phone, but this is a lot easier to read. I use it for browsing tinternet - much better than the phone. I use it for email - much better than the phone. I make notes, I can get documents from my NAS (or any other source). I can even watch movies / TV and play games on it. (It runs Doom!) It's early days, but I suspect that it is going to surplant a lot of bits and bobs I used to carry about - which makes my work easier, and my life. Admittedly, it's not an iPad - it's a Nexus 7 - but that's because I didn't want the over-hyped, over-advertised, over-blogged, apple "product".
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Android devices are actual ok as it's easy to add files you need - pdf etc. iPads on the other hand are an absolutely waste of space in an office, so locked down that the only use for them is as expensive coffee mat! The iPad would have been a great bit of kit if it wasn't for the lack of a decent operating system and its lock down by Apple. Have a Samsung pad and that is useful as an office tool, the iPad is there as we need it for testing HML5 apps and that's about it otherwise it would have been junked months ago!
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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 go into meetings which aren't about code (requiremens, for example) with a tablet. I read documentation on a tablet. I use skype and email intensively on a tablet. Occasionally I use the tablet as the third screen. I'd say I do use a tablet for work. And I'm _not_ a manager. But then again, my tablet has a physical keyboard, and a battery life of three days, if not used for watching movies - Asus' Transformer Prime (there's an even better transfomer out there, if you're interested - mine is almost a year old). My laptop has a 17" screen and weighs in excess of 9 pounds (pretty old, I must say, but I use it less and less, so I don't intend to upgrade any time soon - I would have, if the tablet didn't change things for me). So whenever I can get away with just using the tablet, I will. So all in all I'd say your rage against tablets is unfounded. Give one a try, and see what gives in about three months.
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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 give support, and a Tablet is helpful for this when i'm not in front of my computer, all i need is an email client and a web browser, and even i can remote to the affected computer using GoToMeeting or TeamViewer (but i don't because is a small 4.3 inches tablet). If i need to code then a full computer is a must.
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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've written a mapping app for the street crews, so they can lookup pipes, valves, etc. Much easier to carry than a laptop, plus GPS, camera, etc. They can also receive email, calendar updates. So, a very useful tool for some people. Personally, I use mine to read, watch videos, study university lectures, play games, and social stuff like facebook, etc.
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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).
Its not exactly business related, but as a sound tech, there are many pieces of software that allow you to control mixing consoles from a computer. I then will install Logmein and connect to the computer from an iPad, allowing me to move around the stage/room to dynamically adjust levels. This is especially helpful in venues with fixed speaker arrangements where the sound mix changes depending on where you are standing.
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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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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).
Depends on the "industry". The only place I've seen them used often is as an electronic note taking device - usually in meetings. For this I think tablets are overkill, a smart-phone would have done just as well. A laptop even better. In my main industry (Construction Architecture), we are only starting with a new concept where we do electronic Snagging (inspection / comment / approval of physical building) through the use of a tablet. This seems useful due to the photo incorporated into the note-taking, but also since the snag-list can be shared immediately with all concerned parties. Previously we'd be walking about with a camera and a clipboard, then go back to the office to type up the snag-list to email it to the contractor / consultants. Don't know how it's going to pan out - we've run into some "snags" :laugh: on this system ourselves, but thus far nothing impossible to overcome.
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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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they are starting to be used in agriculture
When I worked in agricultural software back in the early 80's we already had things like "DataLog" - hand held data capture unit for use in the dairy - I can see how a tablet would be the natural progression ... but only if it's robust enough to handle the ...erm ... "stuff" that tends to get splashed around :)
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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).
Tablets are consumer devices (or devices for consuming information). When it comes to actually authoring something, you still have to fall back on PCs/Laptops to really accomplish work in an efficient/timely manner. However, because it is a great means to consume information, this is the reason why there is the hype. For example take an average Joe off the street, likely he's just an information consumer. And while this is not a fact, I have a feeling that only one in a thousand will actually be an author of content or applications.
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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).
Agree 100%. That "finger pushing desk" hardly can be used for something important. Well, may be keeping "purchase list" (what is 100000% cheaper to keep on paper). On my job people used it as a "skype phone", but it's not directly corresponds to a job. I wish this hysteria with tablets calm down and people return to the actual workhorse - simple desktop. :)
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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 actually use them for one of our products. The rules are a bit strange: we are not allowed to connect them to our corporate network wirelessly. Updating the software can only be done with USB. Demos are on independent networks. The big problem is demoing them on a big screen. The big screens have DVI or HDMI inputs. The tablets have micro HDMI outputs. You wouldn't believe how difficult it is to find a micro HDMI to DVI or micro HDMI to HDMI connector of the right sex. I've also seen tablets being used for reference documents on projects. During system test, we work on an independent network and it takes the place of a laptop for looking up documents whenever there is a query about the ICD. Takes a while to get used to the fingerprints and their batteries last a lot longer than that of a laptop. As for note taking: they are pretty useless unless you are a one/two finger typist. As a touch typist, I find the on-screen keyboard impossible to use because there is no feedback other than visual. You can't listen, look at something else and type (which is what touch typists do). You have to look at the keyboard and type with your two index fingers (which is what one/two finger typists do).
