Wolf K wrote:
On 2/15/2013 2:28 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
[snip my comments]
It's horses for courses.

My iPad with its touch-screen is fantastic. I can read books in
car-parks, watch movies, listen to music; and recently I've plugged it
into my home hi-fi and listened to BBC podcasts through a top-notch
speaker system. I play games on planes, once sat at a table outside the
Αθηναιων Î*ολιτεια cafe in Athens, looking up at the Acropolis and using
the cafe's wi-fi to query the Net about things.

Fantastic!

But I also have my desktop at home. On that I do all kinds of things,
but they don't seem to require a touch-screen.

That's my seasoned use of modern IT. It works for me. Win7 on the
desktop; iOSX on the pad.

Am I missing something? I sure feel to be more on-line than I was five
years ago.

Ed

Well, watching movies, surfing the web, etc, isn't a touch screen thing,
it's a device thing. I've used the iPad occasionally for web searches,
it's OK for that. But generally, I just don't find the iPad versatile
enough. Its worst fault: only one app open/visible at a time, and no way
to switch apps without going through the home screen. As for watching
movies, I dislike small screens. FWIW, I don't consider Utoob stuff to
be movies. ;-)

As document reader, the iPad is not ideal. The screen is too small, and
when I zoom a PDF page to make the text readable, I may lose some of the
document. The app should automagically reflow text to always fit the
screen. Like Ctrl+ ;-)

But then, no technology is ideal.


I feel a king with an iPad. It's a staggering piece of equipment to
carry around in a bag. All the books, films, documents, music, + access
to the whole world's history and knowledge at your finger-tips. You can
even use it as a satnav.

I have a secret dream of inventing a time-machine and going back to tell
Archimedes about the future. I dream that neither myself nor the
time-machine would impress him too much; but the iPad would blow him away.

Ed