Comments on: Prepare a Distributed Workforce for a Post-PC World

By: dave

dave — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:51:35 +0000

When I’m at the airport corresponding with my office on a tablet, how am I doing it? I’m balancing a pad on my lap while I type on a flat screen. Even with Swype (sorry Apple) it’s still not as efficient as a keyboard. If I want to be productive, my tablet needs a keyboard. When I add a keyboard, you have a poorly performing laptop. I’d rather write on the Atari 400 or Timex Sinclair. Yeah, that’s right. I’m bringing in the old man throwbacks. Smartphone + laptop. Done.

By: ARJWright

ARJWright — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:04:47 +0000

I almost got excited when I saw the title for this piece in Google Reader. Almost…

The Employee Experience section is close to what I expected when I saw the title. But not because of the “experience” word, but because of the “needs-based” approach that was lightly glazed on. The future of enterprise IT is indeed made up of many devices and policies, but IT needs to go back to the drawing board in respect to those policies and device management issues. IT should not drive the experience, it should enable teams to do so. In a sense, not driving the experience, but enabling then moving aside so that users/teams are able to work around the tools they need, without hiccups because of policies or device/software limitations.

When Jobs mentioned the term “post-PC world” I am sure he meant this, not making another device subset or packaging platform the barometer of whether we’ve moved forward or not.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:44:01 +0000

The problem is that users will want these before there is a real need. So far the iPad has not been designed for working people. I know several people who would love an excuse to get one “for work.”
But there are design flaws for busines use for example:
- the lack of USB or VGA port (to connect to projectors)
- the strong reliance on cloud when some business do not have unlocked visitor WiFi
- the lack of keyboard (unless you can type long documents while looking down at your lap)

All make this a consumer not commercial product