I’ve had laptops and cellular internet connectivity for 7 years, but I never would have done something like this before. Why?
- I wouldn’t have been able to easily find a good app to do this without being bombarded with spam in my Google search. (And many of them would be Windows-only.)
- When I did finally find an app that looked reasonable, I wouldn’t have been able to find any trustworthy reviews, being bombarded instead by more search spam.
- When I went to buy it, it probably would have cost more.
- I wouldn’t have trusted it comfortably enough to install it on my computer.
- It might not even work.
- If it did work, I’d probably need longer to figure out its learning curve, and navigating wouldn’t be as easy or fast with a keyboard and trackpad.
- Taking out the laptop in the car, and passing around a laptop to show the final product, would feel much clunkier than using the iPad.
The computing revolution brought on by iOS, the hardware, and the App Store ecosystem is a bigger deal than we realize.
via marco.org
Marco Arment on using an iPad 3-D drawing app to design his mother's kitchen. From his car. On a 1-hour drive.
