With its introduction of the iPad, Apple is likely to transform the way you do everything from read the newspaper to prepare business presentations. You might not experience these changes this year or next, but several years from now, you will likely look back on your current computer, even if it’s a brand-new model — yes, even one from Apple — as an archaic system that was clunky and frustrating to use.
The reason for this can be summed up in one word: touch.
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The iPad is controlled with a 9.7-inch, touch-sensitive screen, and it heralds a transition from using a mouse and a keyboard for typical computing tasks to touching, tapping and gliding your fingers on a silky glass screen. Anyone who owns an iPhone or iPod touch, Apple’s other devices with a so-called "multitouch interface," knows how wonderfully intuitive and intimate the experience can be, especially when compared to a hulking desktop machine.
The iPad signals the moment when computers changed from being bulky products tethered to desktops and power cords to thin, portable devices you can carry in one hand and slip into a backpack.
apple-ipad-steve-jobs-announcement.JPGAP Photo/Marcio Jose SanchezThe Apple iPad is shown during an event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today.It might be easy to dismiss the iPad as a toy — as nothing more than an oversized iPhone or iPod touch — and certainly it won’t be sufficient for many business professionals, especially those requiring specialized software or big screens, at least it its current incarnation.
But two elements of Apple’s iPad announcement made clear the company’s ambitions to have the device function as more than a plaything. One was its reworking of three Office-like Macintosh applications — Numbers (for spreadsheet), Pages (for word-processing) and Keynote (for presentations) — for the iPad. The other was the iPad’s ability to connect to Apple’s wireless keyboard, or to purchase a docking station with its own keyboard. Taken together, these mean the iPad will be more than capable when it comes to preparing documents, designing PowerPoint-like presentations and crunching numbers.
Source : http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/apple_ipad_likely_to_transform.html
The reason for this can be summed up in one word: touch.
Additional coverage:
• Apple iPad tablet is unveiled by Steve Jobs at live press conference
• Apple iPad to cost from $499 to $829, tablet weighs 1.5 pounds
The iPad is controlled with a 9.7-inch, touch-sensitive screen, and it heralds a transition from using a mouse and a keyboard for typical computing tasks to touching, tapping and gliding your fingers on a silky glass screen. Anyone who owns an iPhone or iPod touch, Apple’s other devices with a so-called "multitouch interface," knows how wonderfully intuitive and intimate the experience can be, especially when compared to a hulking desktop machine.
The iPad signals the moment when computers changed from being bulky products tethered to desktops and power cords to thin, portable devices you can carry in one hand and slip into a backpack.
apple-ipad-steve-jobs-announcement.JPGAP Photo/Marcio Jose SanchezThe Apple iPad is shown during an event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco today.It might be easy to dismiss the iPad as a toy — as nothing more than an oversized iPhone or iPod touch — and certainly it won’t be sufficient for many business professionals, especially those requiring specialized software or big screens, at least it its current incarnation.
But two elements of Apple’s iPad announcement made clear the company’s ambitions to have the device function as more than a plaything. One was its reworking of three Office-like Macintosh applications — Numbers (for spreadsheet), Pages (for word-processing) and Keynote (for presentations) — for the iPad. The other was the iPad’s ability to connect to Apple’s wireless keyboard, or to purchase a docking station with its own keyboard. Taken together, these mean the iPad will be more than capable when it comes to preparing documents, designing PowerPoint-like presentations and crunching numbers.
Source : http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2010/01/apple_ipad_likely_to_transform.html
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