September 1st in iPad News by

The iPad is a Transformative Device.

The iPad is a many splendid thing.  It allows one to read books, browse the internet, play games, makes for a tremendous travel companion, and so much more that it may take days to list them all.  It is truly a transformative device.  Granted, the iPad does not look like the photo at left, but even in the picture accompanying this post, it has transformed a typewriter.  

For me the iPad is not my primary device for reading e-books.  I still use my Kindle more.  Heresy I know.  No, for me the iPad is the device I use to catch up on the news of the day using my now favorite RSS reader, and recently featured on this site, River of News.

I use the iPad to browse the internet when I don’t need to use my laptop.  I use the iPad as the device that goes with me whenever I travel, when I go to work, or any other time I need a mobile computing option that’s easy to transport with a tremendous amount of features.

I am not the only that finds the iPad to be a transformative device.  Tom Austin, VP & Gartner Fellow, also finds the iPad to be transformative.

The full transcript of his argument can be found here, but the important pieces from his post include:

“The iPad is transformational because it just simply works.”

“It comes on in a couple of seconds. “

“The iPad is a mortal threat to most user PCs in existence today.”

“I’m sure Microsoft and Google can come up with their own iPad equivalents. And I hope they’re more competitive than Zune.”

The entire piece by Mr. Austin is quite interesting, but the notion that he finds the iPad to be a transformative device is further affirmation of its greatness.  When the iPad was first announced the name was mocked and many wondered why anyone would need one and who would buy one.  That was 3+ million iPads sold ago.

What do you think?  Is the iPad as transformative as I think, and Mr. Austin thinks?  What point(s) do you agree/disagree with?

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  • Anonymous

    8-) If you agreed with everything I said I’d think you’re as nuts as I am.

    Sorry if I’m so contrary. Fundamentally I just think if Apple’s going to charge such a premium, they should deliver more. Since we get so many devices in order to do what we do—I’m not easily wowed and I see hands on and under the hood where Apple is falling short.

    However, they continue to charge as if they aren’t falling short and I basically feel like–Ok, Apple–uh, you’re bleeding us dry over here—how about investing a little more of those record profits into making these things fully competitive and how about looking into a little thing called “customer demand” instead of resting on the “cool” status and misrepresenting that as total customer satisfaction.

  • http://c4universe.com jffcrmr

    Got a recommendation for a room? Just kidding. Thank you for your insight. Understand it may not be as grand as I or others see it, but I appreciate your points, respect them and agree with some.

  • Anonymous

    Transformative? Whao! Sounds like someone needs to get a room!

    The iPad is great. I use it for a lot of small things. It’s a nice “fill in the cracks” sort of thing. But “a mortal threat” to a PC. Hardly.

    Yesterday I had a computer problem. The darn thing (the PC) kept not finishing an update and rebooting. I lost about 3 hours of productivity. Apart from being able to answer e-mail to impatient clients (thanks to my springing for a wireless keyboard recently), the iPad was worthless for getting anything valuable done (unless you count it being a time killer and maybe keeping my stress level down while I waited for the PC issue to get resolved).

    Sure…if you get to spend 100% of your time goofing off—then the iPad is a threat to the PC. For the rest of us…not! In order to be able to actually afford the excess costs of an iPad (and related peripherals)….I actually need a PC.

    Don’t get me wrong, I obviously like the iPad for a lot of things—I just can’t go into La La Land over it. There are too many realities. For instance, I don’t use the iPad to surf the internet. I use the PC. I use the iPad to read news sites, blogs, and forums — where I know Flash won’t be. I’d LIKE to and I SHOULD be able to use it to surf the internet. But, currently, it’s too limited to do that. When I need to do real and unresricted surfing — well that’s when the iPad gets turned off.

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