What is the 'failure of the iPad' that does not improve even 10 years after the appearance of the iPad?
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How to use the iPad for work, such as task management, document creation, and how to draw pictures, is regularly published on media and SNS. In 2020, the iPad celebrated its 10th anniversary , but a Swiss software engineer said that the current situation where the media is still introducing `` how to use the iPad for work ' ' is `` iPad failure ''. As noted by Lucas Mathis.
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According to Matisse, in 1994, ten years after the appearance of the Mac, there was no media that introduced 'how to make the Mac work.' The PC, the Mac, has permeated the industry and said, 'Almost everyone who has a Mac has already used it in real work. Did not need to be introduced, 'said Matisse.
When Steve Jobs announced the iPad, Jobs introduced the iPad as a 'productive device with a whole new user interface.'
New name of Apple's long-awaited tablet PC is `` iPad ''-gigazine
Jobs compares the iPad to a car. Just as the major vehicle in the United States has changed from trucks to cars, Jobs has declared that iPad will replace trucks in the computer world, desktop and laptop PCs.
However, unlike the Mac that spread as a PC in 10 years, Mr. Matisse lamented that the iPad has not spread as a `` replacement for PC '' even 10 years after its appearance, `` iPad is the next era It was supposed to be a forerunner in personal computing, but somehow the iPad was not a next-generation PC but a tablet with great graphics. '
Matisse points out two reasons for the problem that the iPad did not become popular as a 'replacement for the PC'. The first is the presence of
Matisse says that the iPad is 'an app-based user interface , not a file' is the worst productivity device. An app-based user interface that relies on the App Store is great for playing games, browsing the web, and responding to emails. However, in a productive business that mainly deals with files, it is necessary to collect PDFs, links, images, spreadsheets containing text data, text files, etc. just to create materials and articles.
For tasks that need to collect a lot of data, a PC like Mac, which offers a file-centric user interface, works better. Matisse claims that the work that requires data collection is not suitable for an app-centric iPad and is 'not working well.'
Also, with iPad, it is difficult to move data between apps, display multiple apps on the display at once, switch apps smoothly, and there is also a problem with incompatibility between multitasking and apps Matisse says.
I actually tried using the newly added function in `` iPadOS ''-gigazine
Matisse cites the App Store as a second issue, saying that 'it's really bad for the iPad.'
When the first Mac, the Macintosh 128K , appeared in 1984, single-tasking was the norm and there was no concept of multitasking. Andy Hartsfeld, a major software designer of Mac OS, developed software `` Switcher '' to realize pseudo multitasking after leaving Apple, succeeded in selling and distributing Switcher Did. Switcher was later the prototype of MultiFinder .
PCs such as Macs can freely install free software and shareware created by volunteers to add useful tools and make operation easier. However, since the iPad adds functions by installing apps from the AppStore, even if there are people who have developed software that makes iPad convenient, if you can not register in the AppStore, you can not install the software on the iPad .
Matisse says, 'Who can design Switcher for the iPad? No one is there, but software like Switcher is not an app and cannot be sold in the App Store because it is not an app. Is anyone going to spend more to create stunning and groundbreaking new apps, or the equivalent of iPad desktop publishing , once Apple decides not to go to the App Store ? , All of the features can be ruined, 'he argues. The App Store is hampering the birth of a new system that will improve iPad functionality.
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