The Failure of the iPad
&gt; real work is typically file-centric<p>What is this silly ‘real work’ gate-keeping? I guess the author means <i>their</i> work.<p>My fitness instructor uses an iPad to refer to fitness plans. He’s doing <i>real</i> work. He uses files to do it as well! Opening an Excel spreadsheet.<p>My friend is an outdoor teacher and uses an iPad as a map. He’s doing <i>real</i> work. Maps are files.<p>Another friend works as a train engineer and uses an iPad to refer to technical manuals. He’s doing <i>real</i> work. The manuals are PDF files.<p>My colleagues who do recruitment at conferences take people’s details on iPads. They’re doing <i>real</i> work too. Each form filled in is a file.