I got a macbook about 18 months ago, since that time, my first action most mornings is to get up and check email, facebook, twitter, ESPN etc. This Christmas I got my first smart-phone, a Nokia E63. This is at the basic end of smart-phones with a much smaller screen than iPhone, HTC Hero and Nexus. Yet I have found that since I got this phone my routine has changed. Instead of waiting for my laptop to boot up, which takes very little time! I simply browse on my phone, which I rarely turn off. For simple functions such as checking email, social media and news sites, it's not necessary for me to use my laptop.
When I have gone on holidays in the past I would generally bring my laptop with me so that I could work on future blog posts, college projects and keep a diary of my travels. Over Christmas I went on vacation for 2 weeks and made the decision to leave my laptop at home because I was taking 6 flights in 2 weeks and staying in 4 different hotels. I didn't have any work that needed to be done asap and didn't fancy dragging it around with me. So I brought my smart-phone, which has QuickOffice (essentially MS Office for a phone, I can use word docs, powerpoint slides etc). I came to the conclusion that while QuickOffice was great for viewing existing files, and creating small documents, the ONLY thing stopping me from using it the whole time instead of my laptop was the lack of a keyboard sufficient for writing long documents, creating elaborate presentations.
Lo and behold 2 months later Steve Jobs introduces the iPad. It is exponentially better than my Nokia E63, has large screen, great User Interface, fantastic browsing experience and a full keyboard. An iPad can do everything the majority of people use their laptops for, yet is much much smaller, reasonably priced and is also an eBook reader.
Many Many people have reacted to the iPad by mentioning what it lacks and how it hasn't lived up to the hype, yet ignore a key point Steve Jobs makes at the start of his presentation about why they created the iPad. The iPad is a replacement for netbooks, which were/are a replacement for laptops. *It is only a matter of time...
*Remember laptops 6 years ago? the size? the weight? Confident that in 6 years time you'll be reading this on either a 4th generation iPad or the Dell, HP, Microsoft equivalent...
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