Are you going to buy an iPad? I am so ready to buy one that I am even considering buying it from the States. 150,000 applications immediately available to you.
I have an iPhone and can already run my business from it. An iPad will be a short step up. It will provide larger real estate whilst keeping to a similar OS and a chance to use my favourite apps from the iTunes store. The iPad will have access to all the apps on the iTunes store – they will run in their original size or you can expand them to fill the screen. I know developers have also been developing new apps just for the iPad and also rebuilding their original apps so that they automatically fill the screen rather than use the expanding element.
My iPhone is full of useful and not so useful apps. I have FTP programme with an editor built in. FTPOnTheGo enables me to fix a problem almost anywhere in the world (I need wifi or 3G – Apple isn’t that brilliant). RingItUp Pro handles accounting, Bento for the iPhone adds databasing, ABContacts is almost a CRM but is a useful tool anyway (I am told the crm will be coming in the next release) and Informant handles my appointments.
I also have Moodagent (music), Tunein Radio (Radio 1), Chirp!(Birds), ESVBundle (Bible), numerous photo apps including SlowShutter, Snapture, CameraBag, BlueCam, Best Camera, Liquid Scale. The list is endless of so many very useful apps.
Will I miss the fact that it doesn’t have a camera? I can’t load my own apps? No not really. I will use a computer for that. I am sure there is a lot more that Apple can do with the iPad – it will come, I just want to use one now!
The iPad simply improves upon what is already a superb experience with the iPhone. I’m not trying to convince anyone to buy one. I’m just saying I am going to buy one!
Another iPad video from MacWorld this time.
