At First I Didn’t Believe…But Now I’m an iPad Fan!
April 15th, 2010 // 12:34 pm @ Greg
Since it’s mid April launch, the iPad has been showing up at different coffee shops I frequent. Finally yesterday I got a 45 minute user review from a friend of mine who has one. WOW…Right?
Being “hardware” agnostic, meaning I own several PC and MAC equipment including PC tablets, I was excited to play with it. About 10 minutes into it, I realized I was totally unprepared for what I experienced. Its a game changer!
The graphics are stellar, the form factor is great but the experience is fantastic. First I created a document using Pages, (the keyboard was similar to my iPhone, just with more real estate). Then I dropped in an image, used my index finger to manipulate it around the text, automatically wrapping as I went, and finally saved it to my cloud based storage.
Next I quickly (and tons of fun by the way) edited an image taken from a digital camera. The zoom in, zoom out was lots of fun (pinching as I went). Being a person who never really learned Photoshop, I’ll definitely be able to do some layer editing now.
Finally I used my right hand to free form draw on a sketch application. That was not only easy to do, zooming in for things like thicker or narrower lines, but it was really fun. The creative freedom it sparked, and I’m not an artist, was fantastic!
In this post, I didn’t want to stress the typical hardware review, there’s plenty of places on the web to get that, but I want to emphasize how this device may be the ultimate tech enabler. I must of had 20 entrepreneurial ideas run through my mind as I was using it. Everything from education to health care will be touched.
What a cool “magical” device!.
