I've been reading about it as an object I would introduce to faculty here but as of yet I see promise but nothing absolutely groundbreaking yet. The most interesting thing I see happening are groups of people getting together to play board games on it in-person rather than playing each other online. http://recombu.com/news/say-hello-to-multimodal-multi-touch-gaming_M11625.ht... <http://recombu.com/news/say-hello-to-multimodal-multi-touch-gaming_M11625.html>I'm also looking forward to keynote on this thing. I'm hoping that they add a real time editor or keynote-in-progress editor. Another interesting thing is how it handles transitions between cell signals and wi-fi (smart phones do this already but nothing as substantial as the ipad). The ability to travel with 1 piece of technology that would allow me to conference with friends, collaborate anywhere, and not have to constantly reconnect as I went about my day is an interesting thought. I'm not as familiar with the apple apps as i'm more interested in chromium tablets though. If I had a working folder / series of documents for each location I work in that loaded itself when i walked into that work location, I would be extremely grateful. Keeping my job projects, work projects, and outside work projects organized on any device is hectic. There are apps that do this for android, not sure about apple. What about yourself? On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone bought or tried an ipad?

What are your feelings about it and what solutions or backdrops do you find in it?

We can only read news online about it here in Pakistan or watch a few product review videos.

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I wrote some thoughts on it here: http://papyrusnews.com/2010/02/03/thoughts-on-the-ipad/ That was before I tried it, but now that I've tried it my thoughts are basically the same. The summarized version is: (1) A turning point for multi-touch, (2) A new entry point for children's computing, (3) Launching of a new genre of media device, (4) A big step toward replacing print textbooks, and (5) An eventual competitor as a laptop/desktop replacement The only thing that I would add, after using it, is that its speed also is a major breakthrough. People have been talking a lot about the possibility of ARM processors in netbooks (i.e., smartbooks), but, even with more powerful Atom processors, netbooks are a bit sluggish. It's thus great to see Apple's proof of concept that an ARM-based computing device can be so fast. Mark Warschauer Professor of Education and Informatics University of California, Irvine Education 3000C Irvine, CA 92697-5500 tel: (949) 824-9103, fax: (949) 824-2965 markw@uci.edu; http://www.gse.uci.edu/markw twitter: http://twitter.com/markwarschauer On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Has anyone bought or tried an ipad?

What are your feelings about it and what solutions or backdrops do you find in it?

We can only read news online about it here in Pakistan or watch a few product review videos.

-- Regards. -------------------------- Fouad Bajwa Internet Governance Advisor ICT4D Social Practitioner & Researcher Member Multistakeholder Advisory Group (IGF) Member Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus (IGC) My Blog: Internet's Governance: http://internetsgovernance.blogspot.com/ Follow my Tweets: http://twitter.com/fouadbajwa MAG Interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATVDW1tDZzA _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org

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