“Rennie has put 350 iPads in the hands of executives, IT staff, administrators, faculty and students—all using the iPads in various ways depending on job function,” Kaneshige reports. “It’s the first phase of a project calling for a thousand iPads to be delivered throughout the college by the end of the year, including at libraries and labs where students can ‘check’ them out.”
Kaneshige reports, “The first phase of Florida State College’s iPad rollout started shortly after the iPad became available earlier this year. Rennie has learned a lot since then, as he prepares to send more iPads out into the field.”
Here are five of his surprises:
1. Executives Love iPads in Meetings
2. Pushback May Happen in Unexpected Places
3. Consider the Apple (AAPL) vs. Adobe (ADBE) Fight: Part One, Flash (Rennie is squarely in Apple’s camp and has embraced HTML 5 throughout Florida State College’s Web presence.)
4. Consider the Apple vs. Adobe Fight : Part Two, PDFs (Rennie was pleasantly surprised at how nice the iPad works with PDFs.)
5. Users Have iPad Location Privacy Fears
There’s much more in the full article here.
The PDF issue is a complete red herring. Sent a note to the author last night pointing out that PDF is an open standard that Apple has embedded deeply into MacOS X.
This list was not worth the effort it took to publish it. It should have read, “After I deployed the iPad, there were virtually no issues worth mentioning.”
iPad is incredible and extremely entertaining.
I’m glad I held out for the 3G model. By the time I cut my teeth on this one, I will be ready for iPad 2.0.
Good call. In reading the full article I was surprised at Rennie’s complete misunderstanding of the PDF issue.
@ John – why would you be surprised that a CIO had a complete misunderstanding of a simple technical issue? My experience leads me to be surprised anytime a CIO demonstrates that they actually have a clue about technology-related topics that have evolved in the post-COBOL world.
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oh wait—that was Michael Rennie
Is it just me or do most CIO articles seem to be both superficial and inaccurate?
@Ringgo:
Well, for M$, the day the iPad was released really was the day the earth stood still.
“5. Users Have iPad Location Privacy Fears”
Hmm… that might be a killer App:
Location services has determined you just visited the bathroom.
The iPad moisture sensors detect that you failed to wash your hands.
@ G4Dualie
“I’m glad I held out for the 3G model.”
No kidding. The thought of fiddling around with getting on every coffee shop and library wifi seems so ridiculous and retro to me. And not worth it. My 3G speeds are usually just as fast on all but a good home network. I’ll never go back.
PDF’s???
Guess he doesn’t have a Mac at home.
@ G4Dualie & @ChrissyOne
“I’m glad I held out for the 3G model.”
I wish I had your fortitude. I couldn’t wait to get mine so I got the WiFi version on launch day. Every time I take it out with me, which is practically every day, I wish for the 3G. Now that AT&T has dropped the unlimited plan I lament this fact even more. Anyway, I am glad I didn’t wait for version 2.0 since then I would truly be missing out.
If Adobe got Flash to work, (I know, highly unlikely) Apple would embrace it. It is on the Mac (although ClickToFlash is pretty much a neccessity) as shitastic as it is.
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Hmmm, good question, just forget I said anything
I have the 64GB WiFi and use a Verizon 3G MiFi hotspot. Flat rate unlimited data for about $50/month, which I also use for my laptop on the road.
@ ob1spyker
I’m not sure how worried you need to be about the end of unlimited data… Most of my traffic is at home watching movies so of course that doesn’t count, but I would consider myself a fairly heavy user, and since I activated my 3G account in mid May, I’ve used 2.9 GB… That’s over three months.
Of course I’m glad that I’m grandfathered in, but judging by my usage so far I really don’t think the 2 GB per month limit is a huge deal-breaker.
Apple continues to dominate with very useful workable data getters and givers for the Masses
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Steve Jobs is totally wrong…
The IPad is not magic….
It MAKES Magic!
Vastly superior to “its magic.” Its a swiss army knife for data!!! A true Can Do Device!
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