Når vi ind til kernen er det de fysiske verdens teknologiske landvindinger og knap så meget de dybe software tanker som skaber den store forskel ... Se bare hvad ild og hjul har gjort for menneskeheden ... iPad'en er en nyhed men på en måde ikke ukendt ... Apple viser her igen hvorledes det er at tingene skal gøres ... Og hvad angår GIS ... Der er ingen tvivl om at GIS vil finde nye anvendelsesmuligheder i sammenhæng med iPad'en og sammen med nye apps fra lad os sige Goggle så er der ingen grænser for hvad vi vil komme til at se ... Og det meget snart ... Så kære GIS eksperter og lignende derude - gør jer klar til en ny verden af spændende krav og vær klar til at levere varen ...
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When it comes down to business it is the tech devices and not the softy inside that creates the difference ... See what fire and the wheel have led to ... The iPad is new but in a sense not unknown ... Again Apple shows us the way to do things the way they are supposed to be done ... As for GIS ... Sure GIS apps will benefit from it and combined with new tech from say Google we'll see new worlds before our eyes ... Soon ... So GIS experts and alike be prepared for new demands and stand up to the challenge ...
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Jobs is a relentless perfectionist whose company creates such beautifully designed products that they have changed our expectations about how everything around us should work. He has an uncanny ability to cook up gadgets that we didn't know we needed, but then suddenly can't live without. The iPad is his personal pet project. It's something he's been working on for years, reportedly even while he was recuperating from a liver transplant. Jobs calls it "a truly magical and revolutionary device," and supposedly has told people close to him that the iPad is the most important thing he's ever done.
Which is why so many of us raced to San Francisco in January to get an up-close view of the miraculous tablet. Yet my first thought, as I watched Jobs run through his demo, was that it seemed like no big deal. It's a bigger version of the iPod Touch, right? Then I got a chance to use an iPad, and it hit me: I want one. Like the best Apple products, the user interface is so natural it disappears. The iPad runs on the iPhone operating system, so it's even easier to use than a Mac. Like the iPhone, the iPad is a sleek, slim device. It has a nice 9.7-inch screen, weighs only one and a half pounds, and can play movies for 10 hours on a single battery charge. Right away I could see how I would use it. I'd keep it in the living room to check e-mail and browse the Web. I'd take it to the kitchen and read The New York Times while I eat breakfast. I'd bring it with me on a plane to watch movies and read books.
That may not be life-changing, but is it worth 500 bucks? Yup. Done. Sold. No wonder, then, that by some accounts Apple has received preorders for 240,000 iPads, and some analysts project it could sell up to 5 million units in the product's first 12 months. One early adopter is Steve Wozniak, who cofounded Apple with Jobs. Woz has already ordered three iPads and plans to camp out in front of an Apple store the night before the iPad's debut, just for kicks. "We all say we want things to be simpler, and now here is this simple thing. I think it will be a huge success," Wozniak says. [...]
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