I agree with the casual-home-device assessment. And not necessarily targeting techies, but maybe those who have been admiring Apple from afar but whose tech use was too casual to warrant purchasing an iPhone/Macbook. My friends have mixed reviews of the device, but my parents are stoked. They want one for each of them. The iPad has potential with seniors. Large type possibilities with elegant zoom-in on the web and (I'm guessing) font-resizing in iBooks. My father loves puzzle games, and I could see him getting into them on his iPad on the couch, whereas he never would have bought an iPod.
Possibilities exist in the workplace as well. I can see a doctor holding one of these, flipping through a patient's virtual file as they talk. I've talked to healthcare professionals who don't like to use computers with patients because it feels impersonal; the iPad might feel less so. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48704 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
