I'm still disappointed. Maybe because I was wrong.
I was confident than iPad 2 would not require a companion computer. I expected full Cloud integration, including device backup. I expected the base device would provide 3G access and come with affordable (capped) data plans that would allow basic email and net use (but not media consumption).
A year ago I expected that iPad 2 would be (net) "computing for the rest of us". I thought it would return to the lost promise of the original Mac vision, updated for the net world. I thought I'd buy one for my sister, and connect her to a world she's increasingly divorced from.
That didn't happen.
I'm disappointed.
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Maybe it's because the big MobileMe revamp isn't ready yet. That big data centre Apple are building in South Carolina isn't yeady -- ISTR hearing that the network architect in charge of it died suddenly last November, which has put their plans back.
At the very least, I expect iPad 3 to be capable of eating its own dogfood. This is more like iPad 1.5 ...
I was thinking the same thing -- that their MobileMe strategy was derailed. I'd forgotten the details of that setback though.
We often hear that nobody is irreplaceable. My own experience doesn't agree. There are quite a few employees, at all levels of an enterprise or organization, whose absence can have big implications. I suspect, but can't prove, that most organizations don't know who those people are.
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