Cornelius [North Carolina] “Town Manager Anthony Roberts estimates the town is saving the cost of new iPads with the money it no longer spends printing meeting agenda packets and the time that saves Town Clerk Lori Pearson,” Frank DeLoache reports for The Huntersvillle Herald.
“Mayor Jeff Tarte and the town’s five commissioners displayed their new town-issued iPad 2s at the town board meeting Monday, June 20,” DeLoache reports. “Tarte asked those in the audience to be patient as commissioners get used to calling up every part of the agenda – including budget worksheets, zoning maps and PowerPoint attachments – on their new computers.”
“‘It’s just a no brainer,’ the town manager said late last week, as he ran through the numbers. ‘We used to print all those agenda packets and people threw them in the recycling bin after the meeting. The beauty of this system is you have everything online. It’s there forever and a day, and the general public sees everything,'” DeLoache reports. “And the town saves money, he said.”
“Roberts said he expects the iPad 2 will gradually take the place of all the town’s laptops, which cost $700 to $800. Town officials are even considering placing the iPads in town police cars, though Roberts said they’re not sure if they could replace the larger computer stations,” DeLoache reports. “‘People ask why? To save money. They’re cheaper. That’s why,’ he said.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]
MDN must be having a tea break, so I’ll say this on their behalf;
BLOODBATH.
Wasn’t this the kind of tech utopia that many dreamed of 30 years or so ago? Looks like apple is making it a reality!
Yes, this is the “paperless society” we were promised decades ago, a phrase people liked to quote ironically to sneer at how much more paper printouts our technology was actually generating.
As usual, it takes Apple to finally point the way to the future.
Smart move. Just don’t buy into Android (OPEN) BS. You’ll just wide open for all sorts of CRAP.
Star Trek TNG here we come
“Some people ask Why? To save money. Thats why”
Looks like some people are fighting it by the sounds of it. Why are there so many morons? Can they not see the obvious. It’s a no brainer!!!
Probably the usual paid anti-Apple crowd trying to make trouble. I’d be quite amused to hear them try to make a case for that tired old “Apple products are overpriced” line about iPads!
It’s the least N Carolina could do after aapl invested millions in that mammoth iCloud data center.
That’s million with a B.
“North Carolina” is not buying these nor did Apple invest in “North Carolina”. These are local decisions made by the individual municipalities based on their own particular circumstances.
People don’t realize that it isn’t simply the cost of paper but also the staff hours and printing equipment involved that an iPad can replace.
Total, no-brainer.
I hope he’s using “Powerpoint” in a generic sense.
Probably not. Local governments are by and large married to Microsoft.
Apple pie goodness reversed by the suckage that is PowerPoint & the equally sucktastic Ribbon.