The good side of the Ipad

My last trips forced me literally to accept in exchange for a point of view in doubt an Ipad, among the courage to remain without charge in a flight of 11 hours, the fury of traveling by land 27 hours because of Aeroméxico -What a calamity- and it was bitten by the suggestion of a friend who had me almost convinced. Finally, before the year ended, I ended up scratching the questioned rosette stone on the belly and pinking the dreamed white apple on the back, below ...

My fear was in the same questions released by the geeks, the poor I-kotex (Is pronounced the same in English) earned on the first morning a series of mockery and criticism that many came to think that it was one of Mac's first mistakes. After almost a week of going through it, here are my arguments why I decided not to return it:

1. It's Apple.  This is definitely the reason stronger because the iPad has been sold so much, because other prototypes have come out that compete with it and beat it by miles (and price). But it is a Mac, and in just a few months there are thousands of applications from large and small companies being developed for the iPad -Free and pay-.

I love the Lenovo Ideapad hybrid with the versatility of being Laptop and disassembled as a tablet but beyond the review of friends from Home, I believe you if you find it in a store (Or in the estore). She is also scared HP Slate, With two cameras, usb, digital pen and other wonders but although HP is a brand very popularized in the world, in Gadgets It is not, and if you want to buy one of those toys you have to do it in the United States, London, a big city or wait a couple of weeks for it to arrive. But these toys are cravings for geeks, Who buy them because they overcome the compulsion and this has understood Mac well that has spread its stores almost anywhere, where you can see, touch and buy from a simple Ipod nano to a Macbook Air.

1. It is not an Iphone.  Many questioned that it looked like four joined iPods, and criticized that it was just one more article. But while it is true that what the functionalities are similar, the applications will never be. So let's not expect the iPad to have phone features, it's not for that.

See the entertainer from Bentley demonstrating a prototype on Microstation that allowed me to navigate virtually within a plant with many tubes and valves gave me great satisfaction. Also recently see AutoDesk back to mac with all its battery of design. And it is, that the applications for GIS / CAD are not going to wait, because this will finally allow the consultation in the field to stop being a simple Redline and become an online interaction with the data; which the tablet is almost ready for. They will then be what the PDA could never be for reasons of size -Which in this case if that matters-.

2. It is not a laptop.  It has no USB slots, no camera, and no built-in physical keyboard. It has none of that. Because it is not a laptop. It's made to work in the cloud, that's why everything has a mail button, that's why you're always looking for a wireless network, that's why 3G works so smoothly and Latitude Puts you on the map right where you are.

Although for those who do not get used to the virtual keyboard, there are toys that make it a nice backpack to write more comfortable.

Well, then what is it?

3. It is an expensive notebook.  Office applications are relatively inexpensive, generally around $ 5; competitive and compatible with Office and in many cases superior. So for common work there is no need to worry, you just have to learn to scratch like an armadillo and understand things that were complicated with Office but that in the same way and more attractive does Pages (Word), Numbers (Excel) and Keynote (Powerpoint ).

The majority of applications seek to replace what we do with an agenda that in May no longer has pages available, the four notebooks that need to be charged in the afternoon to university, the laptop where you have to see the email every 30 minutes, Freehand drawings.

In short, it is a gadgets. It is another type of object that will change the way we do things, albeit slightly years after what Bill Gates wanted, with maturity and style. Just as Nokia taught us to text with one finger, Mac is teaching us to do it with our fingertips and nails.

Great Apple smoke, with the Itunes panel everything is done. From there the operating system version is updated, every time it connects it makes a backup just in case. You just have to write and all the colorful buttons fall out that if you do not control yourself in a while you have put 34 dollars on the card in matters that you will not occupy.

There is no time to question it, because there will be as many applications as there are businesses. That if it will be multitasking, it is a matter of waiting for a new version of OS, that we will have Chrome for Ipad, calm, calm, what is convenient is to buy the 64 GB with Wifi + 3G at once because it will not change the chassis, there will only be more capacity with the same shell. An impossible dream with PC.

For now my daughter leaves me surprised with the drawings she makes with AutoDesk Sketchbook Pro, my son bought SpongeBob with a Bikini bottom with his Farmville coins and there he passes it with a finger touching the surfboard so that Patrick jumps about jellyfish. And me… TeamViewer To operate the desktop PC, Skype or Whatsapp y Facebook To do business, Chapters to finish writing my book, Note Taker to write / draw almost everything, Wordpress For geofumar ... and expect the cloud to come down for CAD / GIS applications.

Others ... sure do not occupy an Ipad.