Comments on: Yet Another Article About Apples New iPad…Kinda http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/yet-another-article-about-apples-new-ipad%e2%80%a6kinda Using technology to make businesses better Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shane Kalles http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/yet-another-article-about-apples-new-ipad%e2%80%a6kinda#comment-169 Shane Kalles Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:03:28 +0000 http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-169 @Dean - You raise a valid point and I don't disagree that there are business use cases that are valid. However, to me the iPad seems more like a consumer toy then a business tool and those hand full of use cases will (most likely) not make the iPad a big game changer. I could be wrong it may take the world by storm but most likely it is just a big step in the right direction, not a finish line. @Marty - I will be interested on how the iPhone vs Android battle will progress and what that means for us that want/need better mobile connectivity. Hopefully the winner will be the consumer. @Dean – You raise a valid point and I don’t disagree that there are business use cases that are valid. However, to me the iPad seems more like a consumer toy then a business tool and those hand full of use cases will (most likely) not make the iPad a big game changer. I could be wrong it may take the world by storm but most likely it is just a big step in the right direction, not a finish line.

@Marty – I will be interested on how the iPhone vs Android battle will progress and what that means for us that want/need better mobile connectivity. Hopefully the winner will be the consumer.

]]> By: Dean Flaming http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/yet-another-article-about-apples-new-ipad%e2%80%a6kinda#comment-168 Dean Flaming Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:41:42 +0000 http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-168 An area where iPad is seriously being looked at for business use where laptops/desktops fall down is in the Health Care industry for doctors walking from room to room. Simply put, when the "One device per user" count is a third of the "One device per room" count, this can significantly decrease the costly overhead of the workstations regardless of the backend infrastructure (TS/Citrix/VDI). This significant reduction is further enhanced by lack of or (at minimum) greatly reduced maintenance of an iPad over a laptop/desktop with Windows (because Windows does crash). Also, while VMware and Citrix have both made client hypervisor announcements to address the OS maintenance, think about the "germ-factor" for a minute. While the iPad does have a docking station, it also has a glass touch screen and a visual keyboard. Laptops (and even laptops with touch screens) are all plastic. For those non-Germophobes, plastic is porous (i.e. sponge-like) and harder to sterilize than glass...not to mention the laptop/desktop keyboard is just a ripe playground for germs of all kinds. And let's face it, doctors are among the worst of all end users due to their enhanced "pickiness factor" - and the iPad is just "sexy" enough for them to actually like. :-) An area where iPad is seriously being looked at for business use where laptops/desktops fall down is in the Health Care industry for doctors walking from room to room. Simply put, when the “One device per user” count is a third of the “One device per room” count, this can significantly decrease the costly overhead of the workstations regardless of the backend infrastructure (TS/Citrix/VDI). This significant reduction is further enhanced by lack of or (at minimum) greatly reduced maintenance of an iPad over a laptop/desktop with Windows (because Windows does crash).

Also, while VMware and Citrix have both made client hypervisor announcements to address the OS maintenance, think about the “germ-factor” for a minute. While the iPad does have a docking station, it also has a glass touch screen and a visual keyboard. Laptops (and even laptops with touch screens) are all plastic. For those non-Germophobes, plastic is porous (i.e. sponge-like) and harder to sterilize than glass…not to mention the laptop/desktop keyboard is just a ripe playground for germs of all kinds.

And let’s face it, doctors are among the worst of all end users due to their enhanced “pickiness factor” – and the iPad is just “sexy” enough for them to actually like. :-)

]]> By: Marty Smallman http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/yet-another-article-about-apples-new-ipad%e2%80%a6kinda#comment-166 Marty Smallman Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:23:41 +0000 http://www.mooselogic.com/blog/?p=1146#comment-166 Agreed. The biggest issue with Apple is that Steve Jobs blindly clings to the technology lockdown you talk about. Open systems are the future. Consumers would be right to wonder who owns the device, themselves or Apple given Apples increasingly dicatorial position. Now with the recent iPhone vs Android battle looming, one has to wonder if Steve Jobs has actually lost the plot. Agreed. The biggest issue with Apple is that Steve Jobs blindly clings to the technology lockdown you talk about. Open systems are the future. Consumers would be right to wonder who owns the device, themselves or Apple given Apples increasingly dicatorial position. Now with the recent iPhone vs Android battle looming, one has to wonder if Steve Jobs has actually lost the plot.

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