When I first got the original Ipad last year I wrote that it was very cool, but not quite a revolution in the way that IPhone revolutionized our smartphones. The reason is because it was not quite a computer, and not quite a phone, but something in between. It was an amazing device to consume media....but not much in the way of a productivity device. (at least that's what I thought at the time)
And then slowly but surely I realized the revolution....which is..... bye bye paper! As a pdf reader with apps like "Goodreader" which is the gold standard of pdf apps...and "Iannotate" which lets you legally sign contracts with your finger. It goes a long way in marginalizing those pesky cluttering stacks of dead trees. Now with a high speed scanner, cloud based storage like "Dropbox" and a 3g connected IPad I have all my records with me, able to instantly call up...and reference whenever I need to. The vet needs Raven's rabies record? Well instead of digging through a file cabinet I can e-mail it while I am standing in front of them. And on and on it goes. It totally replaces the briefcase. Everything is archived and saved, not in dusty boxes that create clutter and get pooped on by rats, but in the cloud, able to be called down to the Ipad in seconds.
Now when you take all this functionality and slim down the device, make it even more comfortable to hold....and much faster. You have something that is indispensable. Before I wrote about the desert island where I could only have one device...I said it would be the iphone....but now it would be the Ipad 2.
Goodbye Paper!!
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
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Here. I agree. I don't take paper or brief cases or anything with me anymore. More and more I say "I can just do that with the iPad." Nothing short of awesome.
There's also an ecologic advantage of the iPad here. Great entry! I like your blog :)
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