To Microsoft and other tablet makers:Pay attention to how user uses an iPad
filed in User Experience on May.15, 2011
When creating a winning tablet, its not the most important just load every tablet with the most core cpu, the most ram and the biggest screen.
Package them well and make it affordable and people will flock to your offering.
Here is an interesting post from bob Bushway who describes how iPad can replace almost all his daily use except for intensive administration and programming work.
- I woke up this morning at 4:15 am and did some light reading with my wife using my iPad and Olive Tree Bible app.
- I then went to the gym, jumped on the elliptical, did some more reading using Amazon Kindle app.
- After punishing myself a little bit more on various instruments of torture, I logged my workout using Numbers.
- While waiting for my wife to finish her workout, I checked and answered a few emails.
- I then made my way to the office, went into a meeting, and took notes using thatsame iPad and the Evernote app. During the meeting I needed access to a few documents, so I popped open Documents To Go, accessed my DropBox folder, and then opened the Word doc. I made some edits and saved the document (which was then synced to my other computers).
- During the day, I’m also logging my meals using Numbers (on the same iPad I used for the meeting above…notice the trend?)
- While at work, I’m doing programming and editing using my Windows-based Tablet PC (a different computer). My notes and document edits from the meeting above are available to me. However, I’m more likely to take my iPad to a meeting rather than my Tablet PC.
- When I go home tonight, I’ll use my iPad on and off throughout the evening – accessing my kids school website, reading a few blogs, checking email, and then closing the evening out with some more reading in Olive Tree.
