“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.