Every man and his dog already seems to have commented on the IPad so I thought I might as well throw in my two pennies worth. I probably can’t compete with Charlie Brooker who managed to mention masturbation during a prison visit in his review or even Hitler’s rant about Apple’s latest offering, but what the hell.
Does the IPad indicate a shift back to client server technology? Obviously it wouldn’t be called that, but as the iPhone has shown, there is a drift to using individual applications to access a particular service, e.g the New York Times iPhone app, just as we have got using to the idea of doing everything through a web browser.
Will the biggest uptake of the IPad eventually be at the corporate level? This seems a strange idea at first but for many system administrators the idea of having a locked down network enabled device when software can only be installed via an app store where all applications are pre-approved is a dream come true. Apple would need to release an intermediate app store for corporations, but this isn’t particularly difficult.
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