Despite the tablet market growing bigger and bigger and bigger each day, the millions of pounds floating around within the industry and the significant dent in PC sales, the general public have not yet accepted the tablet PC with open arms and some are not convinced the it has any relevance and are sure it’s nothing more than a passing fad.
Of course there are handful of geeks, students and business people who have splashed out on an iPad. But some guy flipping through spreadsheets on a train or a bored student playing Angry birds in the back of a lecture theatre isn’t very exciting, nor does it capture the true excitement and potential of tablet computing. Hence one of my categories types of tech news, the iPad success story.
When you see news such as the Queen of England asking for an iPad, or the iPad becoming a darling of teachers and doctors, it’s not just a victory for Apple, but the tablet itself. Whether you like it or not, the tablet is the future of computing and its quickly becoming an essential product for all areas of employment from construction, to politics, from journalism to the retail sector.
The latest company to reach out to Apple is Alaska Airlines. On Friday they announced that they will issue iPad tablet computers to their pilots and ridding them of 25 pounds of paper flight manuals in the process. Dubbed the “electronic flight bag” the use of the iPad to replace paper manuals is more efficient, more convenient, cheaper and better for the environment. Ultimately it’s a more modern way of dealing with flight manuals. This is the key to the iPad’s success, modernity. Despite being in 2011 some areas of business are way behind in the times and there’s nothing like a swanky, touch screen tablet computer to drag yourself into the 21st Century.
The company said it’s the first major U.S. airline to replace paper manuals with an iPad and hopes the change will mean lead to”fewer back and muscle injuries caused by pilots carrying flight bags.”
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