using a reference book\/app specific to your vocation (hello doctors and pilots!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhy ask this question of tablets, anyway?<\/p>\n
Let’s take an average multi-functional office in an average industry that doesn’t focus on creation (think ‘The Office’ if it helps) in which everyone uses a computer for variety of officey-things, such as analysing finances, making purchases, organising shift patterns, closing deals, chasing leads. Whatever. I don’t work in this (or any) office so I don’t have much experience, but you can’t tell me that everyone in that office that uses a computer in some way for their work would categorise everything that they do that isn’t ‘consumption’ as, by virtue of it being the only other option, ‘creation’. Their computer is a tool.<\/p>\n
If you wouldn’t demonstrate a computer’s validity as a tool by asking “But can it do content creation?” why is it appropriate for a discussion of tablets?<\/p>\n
Of course, just because you can<\/em> do something work-related on a tablet doesn’t always mean you would want to. I could perform tweaks to my RAW photos on an iPad using Snapseed, but unless I need to in order to send a client a shot quickly, I’d rather just wait till I got home and put them through Lightroom due to the extra power, screen space, functionality and finesse of control.<\/p>\nInstead I use my iPad on a shoot to transfer photos, review them with the client and make selects there and then while still shooting. I’m not creating content with it in this instance but it’s still a valuable work tool and far more than the dumb consumption device it’s often made out to be purely because a sizeable segment of users do nothing else with it.<\/p>\n
(I could do this on a MacBook Air and gain powerful on-site editing, but I rarely need the editing, it’s harder to pass around, and the client navigates it less intuitively without my guidance, so I don’t.)<\/p>\n
The Post-PC World<\/h3>\n
That’s another phrase that’s getting everybody riled up for nothing, “the post-PC world” – it’s a currently-hot phrase often used by those looking for a zippy buzzword to tie their computing article to, but it’s been mis-appropriated or at least misunderstood ever since it was handed to them on a platter by some cunning tech man (Steve Jobs?) looking to neatly highlight the shift in computing trends towards tablet-like devices.<\/p>\n
The way it’s being mis-used to portend the imminent death of the desktop or laptop is not how it was intended, in my opinion. It doesn’t mean we are in a ‘PC Is Dead’ world, because it’s clear the PC is not dead at all. It means we are in a world where PCs are no longer the only way to compute. Tablets, particularly iPads I guess because that’s all I really know, are computers that have adapted to a new way of using them: with our fingers. So are smartphones, frankly, in so far as they are computing devices that allow you to do computery stuff.<\/p>\n
So ‘post PC world’ to me means ‘post All-Computer-Stuff-Must-Be-Done-On-A-Desktop-Or-Laptop world’, which clearly isn’t as slick.<\/p>\n
Am I making any sense at all? I do to me, but sometimes I lose sight of what I’m saying as I spew it across the screen. Feel free to get involved in the comments.<\/p>\n
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