[gui-talk] I Pad question

[Dean Martineau]

I would say that if you are a competent user of your screen reader, you
probably won't surf the web as efficiently as you do with your pc.  But you
will do so much more portably.  The reason for these tablets is portability.
The iPad isn't a great productivity tool, though apparently Pages is now
somewhat accessible, but it is a great portable tool for lighter tasks.

Dean


-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lloyd
Rasmussen
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 6:05 PM
To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface, GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] I Pad question

My personal opinions:

For word processing you are still better off with a PC running Windows, 
Linux or OS/X.  I'm sure you can do plenty of writing, especially informal 
writing like e-mail, on an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, but you will probably

want an external Bluetooth keyboard if you are doing much writing.  Of 
course you can use Siri, but then you might want to edit what it recognized.

I think that in a few more years Windows will be on its way out, but we 
haven't quite reached that point yet.

For web surfing, media playback, and many other "read-only" activities, I 
would see little disadvantage to using an iDevice.


Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: Don H
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 8:29 PM
To: gui-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [gui-talk] I Pad question

Have been a Windows based computer user for many many years Mostly for
word processing and web surfing.
Is the Apple I Pad a viable product to use for my applications?  IF so
which model and memory level would you suggest.
Thanks for any input.




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