I work in higher education in IT.
We've purchased about 35 iPads before they came out. I would of liked to
see them used for classroom use. Instead they were purchased by public
relations so they can be used during campus tours? I don't see the use case
for this but then again I don't make those decisions. There has been a lot
of discussion on iPad security on an Educause listserve I'm on. People want
to access their ERP system from the iPad device.... That's a pretty scary
thought at this point to me. First being the weak encryption lengths on
wireless. Which makes traffic easy to sniff, then on top of that the fact
that some ERP system rely on an outdated RDP protocol that negotiates it's
encryption level and in most causes chooses the weakest possible.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when I droid based tablet hits the
market. The two security issues I mention wouldn't be solved in the droid
tablet but, I'd like to see what some serious competition would do to the
iPad. On another note why is the iPad first to market with this device, why
wasn't droid first? I thought droid does!!! My problem with this is why is
it apple had to jump in this market make such a huge splash and now it
seems like everyone is playing catchup...
Eh my two cents,
Jim
On Jul 25, 2010 3:48pm, Van <[email protected]> wrote:
A couple of the profs in my department have already put in requests
with the dean to have the college use our "faculty development funds"
to buy them an iPad.
I might have requested one, too, except 1) I'd rather own my own
iPad than be carrying around one I'd be responsible to the College
for, in terms of everything from what's on it to what I do with it to
what becomes of it, and 2) in the midst of a college-wide financial
crisis (where we aren't even replacing the IS guy on our branch campus
who quit last semester!), I just don't have the cojones to ask them to
buy me one.
--Van
On Jul 24, 3:06 pm, [email protected] wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/07/ipad-goes-under-the-gauntlet-a...
>
> What do you think?
>
> I like the idea in higher ed to replace text books with a universal
> e-reader I'm not sure the iPAD is the be all end all but, it's a start.
>
> Jim
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