Temporary Insanity
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Temporary Insanity used to be a forum here on AI back in the day and it could get wacky.
Temporary insanity, though, doesn't just apply to us here at AI, but the entire tech world. At PC World, there is an article claiming the new tablet won't be good for business. What do you guys and girls think?
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._business.html
Temporary Insanity used to be a forum here on AI back in the day and it could get wacky.
Temporary insanity, though, doesn't just apply to us here at AI, but the entire tech world. At PC World, there is an article claiming the new tablet won't be good for business. What do you guys and girls think?
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscente..._business.html
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5 days, 14 hours, 30 minutes to go
How long till the keynote is it now?
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Added to the first post that which I had intended to include.
The comments at the bottom of the article are pretty pointed.
Attention Apple fan-boys and -girls: Read no further. But if you run a small business and want to avoid wasting money and brain cells on superfluous technology, forget about the iSlate or whatever Apple is going to call its tablet computing device. It’s going to be too expensive, it does things you don’t need to do, and it will add a messy layer of complication to your company's computing infrastructure.
We all have extremely little idea of what this product will do, or cost, but yet before anyone even knows what it is, the author is dismissing it a "superfluous technology?" I mean, who knows, it may very well be entirely useless for businesses, but it seems like a ridiculous jumping of ye olde gun.
At PC World, there is an article claiming the new tablet won't be good for business. What do you guys and girls think?
I think they are right.
For 25 years the PC industry have basically been making glorified office equipment.
It's perhaps time to make a computer that is about un-productivity.
Those wanting a super-net-book-top that can create content despite the missing keyboard will be sorely disappointed.
Touch interfaces are great for getting information out of a machine. Not so good for putting information in.
C.
I think they are right.
For 25 years the PC industry have basically been making glorified office equipment.
It's perhaps time to make a computer that is about un-productivity.
Those wanting a super-net-book-top that can create content despite the missing keyboard will be sorely disappointed.
Touch interfaces are great for getting information out of a machine. Not so good for putting information in.
C.
Alas I think you're right. But I drool over the thought of Apple creating a tablet aimed at health care professionals. Sort of like when they used to aim some of their products at creative pros.
But that isn't their style at the moment. Maybe third party SW vendors will pick up the ball and run with it.
Alas I think you're right. But I drool over the thought of Apple creating a tablet aimed at health care professionals. Sort of like when they used to aim some of their products at creative pros.
But that isn't their style at the moment. Maybe third party SW vendors will pick up the ball and run with it.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had third party SW to show off at the event specifically aimed at health care (or med students). They did for the app store launch.
There are a number of things (Aperture, etc.) that need updating and Apple shouldn't distract from the new product intro on Wednesday.
Maybe Monday or Tuesday.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they had third party SW to show off at the event specifically aimed at health care (or med students). They did for the app store launch.
I think you could see an Epocrates app but that's about it.
I think you could see an Epocrates app but that's about it.
Well, certainly they're not going to have it hooked up to electronic medical records. That's just a shit-storm.
Well, certainly they're not going to have it hooked up to electronic medical records. That's just a shit-storm.
I've had this dream for an app that could be on an iPhone, or even better a slate, that would be hooked into the IT department of the hospital you worked at.
When you walked into the hospital it would import your patient list and all new labs. Then as a provider saw the his patients he could enter the exam level for that encounter, or any other billable procedure, and then when he returned to the office that would sync with his billing software. All wirelessly without a lot of fuss.
That would make provider's lives easier.
That whole article is bizarre.
We all have extremely little idea of what this product will do, or cost, but yet before anyone even knows what it is, the author is dismissing it a "superfluous technology?" I mean, who knows, it may very well be entirely useless for businesses, but it seems like a ridiculous jumping of ye olde gun.
Don't you all remember the tablet that Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) was using in the Iron Man movie? I think the tablet would be a great digital assistant to someone in the business world.
Ipad, Itablet, ipalette, Iscribe, Islate, whatever it's called I'm ready for the next big thing.
I see it with most functions and features rumored about.
With the addition of:
voice recognition controls, voice transcription,
New input options, virtual keyboards, multitouch frontside and backside, inputs adaptable, customizable to suit required functions.
HD display with ccd sensors , face recognition, view tracking, view controlled , 3d enabled
photo voltaic cells under display allow solar recharging.
Induction charging
cell, wifi, wimax, bluetooth, am-fm, HD radio, satellite, weather band, marine band, IR, police scanner, rfid transceivers.
front and rear video cameras
universal remote, media controller, smart home controller
DLP pico projector
Made in the USA by union labor.
That last one's a little crazy.
Larry
I haven't seen an American hospital recently and imagine that in addition to the patient's actual medical data, the insurance data would be a nightmare due to the number of companies, .
That's not really an issue as procedures and diagnoses are reported using standardized coding (CPT and ICD-9).
Nevermind
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Didn't know, but am glad to hear, that the med records keeping is standardized.