The Apple tablet is the white whale of the Mac enthusiast community. It’s one of those products that every die hard geek seems to think will change the world, but seem to overlook it’s painfully obvious lack of usefulness in the real world. Heck, I want one, and I have absolutely no practical use for the damn thing. So what’s the big deal?
Who would really need a Mac tablet? Well, the same people who have already adopted those dreadful PC tablets Gates has been pushing for the last 5 years. We’re talking doctors, educators, engineers and I suppose a small audience of digital artists. Ironically, these are also the fields that seem to have a disproportionally higher number of Mac users.1 Why walk around with a bunch of patient history papers when you can carry one device with all that information, and everything else you could possibly want to know about them, their condition, etc. It only makes sense that these fields, and I suppose others, would want to move towards this.
Of course, this leads the obvious question: is there any practical use for these things in my home? For me, there isn’t. I do want one, because the idea of just picking up a device and taking it into the living room to browser the web without the hassle of trackpads or positioning the laptop display just right so it isn’t blocking my view but I can still see the TV.
Wait, I think we already have this. It’s called an iPhone.
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