Posted on 05/06/2013 7:32:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I use my iPad at work and home. In the last week I have:
1. Attended a meeting where all the docs were emailed as PDF’s before. I viewed the docs and made notes right on the screen. When done, I forwarded the marked up PDF to my co-workers with just a couple of clicks.
2. Pulled up pricing from a supplier while a customer was sitting with me. Created a quote with that info and sent it to their email before they even left my showroom.
3. Checked the status of orders placed with multiple vendors.
4. Created a quote in response to an email request, complete with a mock up of their shirt.
5. Took dozens of payments using Square.
6. Reviewed Receivables with the QuickBooks app.
I could go on, but my iPad is DEFINITELY more than a toy.
HA!
Eight billion people on he earth more or less, how many programmers? Which market should they go after?
Huh? I do multitasking on my iPads all the time. You don't need to close programs. On the current IOS, double-click the large button above the docking port. You'll see your open apps at the bottom, and you can easily switch to another app. Another way is to place four fingers on the screen and slide them left or right, to switch to another open app. I often cut and paste between apps in this manner. Sliding four fingers up on the screen does the same thing as double-clicking the large button.
There are a lot of available features present, if you take the time to learn them. For instance, hold down the large button and simultaneously press the power switch on the opposite corner. It takes a screen picture of whatever is displayed, placing it in your Photos camera roll folder. Easy way to capture information you're displaying, no matter what it is. You can then edit and crop the picture for content you want to keep.
Likewise for me. I'm helping a friend by rewiring part of his home. Using my iPad 2, I snapped numerous pictures of his existing wiring from the circuit box in his garage, up his stairs and into his kitchen. I then used a drawing program, to draw wire runs on the pictures. Took measurements of the runs, and "wrote" them on the pictures, added them up and wrote up a parts list of supplies. Then I emailed the pictures to him via the mail program, along with a writeup. All in ten minutes. This included sketching drawings on a picture of his kitchen where I'll build a custom cabinet for his laptop computer and wire connections. The iPad is a fantastic tool, far more useful for this handheld portable work than a laptop could do. No keyboard or mouse necessary, just used my index finger on the screen.
Roflol. You just perfectly described the difference between the iPad (which I am tuping on now) and the other guys.
There is next to no ‘figuring it out’ on the iPad.
Athe other guys, are overly complicated and easier to get lost on.
Apple wins on perfect simplicity.
A lot of enterprises rely on Excel spreadsheets and macros, and the three people who really understand it.
I used to go into the macros and change them to make the numbers do what I wanted. You should have seen how pissed the budget people got. I laughed.
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