On 2011-03-19 13:23 , eckinator wrote:
thanks steve - you wrote "most apps useless"
well, more than half of the 200+ i never use, thus they are literally useless to me; most of these were free, so i just wasted a little time trying them out once; but there are also very useful apps, it pretty much has what most people want from a computer, as long as your expectations of configurability, processing power and efficiency are lowered a bit
I'm a bit worried i might wind up with a 700 € movie player plus browser status symbol can it for example be used to provide remote support or for system/network documentation purposes? are there IT tools available to run on it?
yes, many options; i've even used iPhones to ssh into servers, an experience that would be vastly superior on the iPad; logmein and others are available; for diagramming i'd look at OmniGraffle (a favorite tool of mine on the desktop, but i've never used it on an iPad); i'm not sure what kinds of IT tools you might mean (after decades as a programmer, i'm still never sure what people mean when by "IT") -- a web search with the name or category of a tool and "ipad" will usually answer your questions quickly
iOS does very well with PDFs; it can open (and edit) Office formats, and there quite a few ways to use it for "productivity"; most apps are under $5, and many truly useful ones are free, but some prices are justifiably higher (OmniGraffle is $50)
i don't feel much impact from the lack of Flash -- it is mostly restaurants and other inconsequential sites that provide no alternative to their Flash interfaces; but then, i customarily block Flash on the desktop too, running it only selectively
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