The iPad has been characterized as a device that's more for consuming media than for productivity. Yet there are a lot of people out there who are intent on using it as a computer. And there are an increasing number of productivity apps. Macworld has a great comparative review of office apps for the iPad. The article's author, Galen Gruman, concludes with a list of productivity apps that he feels should be the standard installation on corporate iPads: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, GoodReader, and ZipThat. He favors the Apple apps over those in other suites, but gives an alternate list if you're someone who is stymied by Pages' lack of style-sheet retention.
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Comparative review of iPad office suites
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I love the app Jim
I love the Pages app Jim. I use it daily, and have written a few fairly long reports at work with it on my iPad's screen with no ill effects on my wrists. For me, the app is what it is, a very slimmed down word processor. But that's relative.
When I was in High School we had to learn typing on
an IBM, it was a rugged machine and there's plenty of them still around, but would I use one again? No.
The iPad with Pages is a fairly powerful word processor, and I find more than adequate for work in healthcare where I have to constantly write. I think if one were writing as a profession, it would fall short, though I don't see why even in journalism the iPad with Pages wouldn't be a superb field word processor since it's so easy to lug around and just tap the Home button and tap the Pages icon and you're writing - no boot time, like with a lap top.
Am I glad I dumped my MacBook and just use my iPad? Yes.
When I think back to
When I think back to typewriters, I can't imagine how we were able to function with them. I began using word processing in 1980 and never looked back.
Jim