Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sent from my iPad On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > It could be I'm being a bit of a luddite unnecessarily. But I've seen very > few iPads in the starbucks around Columbia university and NYU. Like zero. > I saw one in a starbucks in a Barnes and noble on the upper west side. > Then another in the same place. One once on a subway. And they've been out > for not a short while. With different brands even. > The kids seem to think the net books have a lot more functionality. > Like a keyboard maybe. I work at a university, in the library building, btw, and kids do use laptops, very few use net books as they are simply c rippled smaller laptops that cost about the same as laptops. Those who can afford it have iPads as well. More used for entertainment than work, just yet , but I'd say iPads number in the hundreds on our campus. I think that will increase when word processing power and the ability to do power points are commonly available. Laptops have full wireless, full Microsoft word, and can go easily to the databases and other electronic resources they need. > And the kids are bloody geniuses. I'm impressed by them. > I want to switch to their breakfast cereal. Frosty flakes, in my experience > > You guys laughed when I said an iPad should be an iPhone. > It should be a big iPhone. > > Then some company started making pad which had a phone in them and they > started selling like hotcakes. > > Me I'm not going to go buy an iPhone then go out again and buy an ipad. > I want all my I's in the same pod. > -- They are two different animals. Sometimes it is nice to have two i's. And two eyes. And two different animals, like a torti and a tabbie. They look similar, but do different jobs. SonC >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ____