Gmail, the ultimate awesome email experience, just got better with their newest feature: Priority Inbox. PI is a smart redisplay of emails in your inbox. The ordering is New mail on top, then starred mail, then unstarred read mail. This is perfect for someone like me who gets hundreds of emails a week and loses or forgets about important ones. The star concept was a good start, for marking email important, but when those emails drift down past the 1st page of emails I forget about them. This is going to train people how to rethink their email process and become more efficient I think.
I’ve been using the iPad for a while now and i generally like it. I find typing on the onscreen keyboard to not be difficult. I’m only slowed down when i need a character that is not in the default view. The device is very comfortable when using on the couch or even standing up.
My main uses have been
Email
Websites
Youtube
Facebook
Reading Rss feeds
I’ve done all of these tasks quite comfortably. It is if i try to do anything more advanced that i will probably get frustrated, but i knew that this was what I got the device for and if I need to do more i can use my computer.
Would i recommend iPad? Yes and no.
Everything i do with ipad i could do on any net book, but ipad makes it more enjoyable. You have to just decide for yourself if the experience is worth the extra money.
I renewed my membership in the USBC Coaches Association for the year. I’m feeling good about our program. I think we are really going to make some great progress and growth this year with the kids and the town.
I was thinking about this… why do we avoid taking the plunge? Apple is leading the pack. They came out with the iPhone first. Some people went and bought one and loved it. Others read the reviews and found reasons to wait for a competitor to make another option, like the Droid. So we say no to iPhone and wait all that time for Droid to come out. Then a new and improved iPhone comes out and we wait until Droid updates itself so we can have similar features.
In a similar way, Apple released the iPad first bringing us a new way of computing. Again, we read the reviews and find reasons to wait. We wait for an Android or Windows tablet that can rival the iPad. Not long after that a better iPad may come out.
My question is why do we wait? Why would we rather wait for months and be without then to get what is here now, but is not 100% what we are looking for? The device we wait for is likely to not be 100% either, and once we buy it Apple will release their update and we will have to wait again.
Apple products have shown to have excellent resale value on craigslist. Is it not worth buying now instead of waiting and then when Apple releases their next version be able to sell and recoup more than 50%?
I am typing this post on my Droid phone while laying on the couch. I’m holding the phone sideways and using the on-screen keyboard. I’m pretty quick.
The iPad is shiny and new and because apple made It, we are compelled to own it, myself included.
I don’t think I will buy an ipad. An ipad is a limited laptop. Yes it is a different experience. I have another device already that is pretty much the same in every way that I would use an ipad, my Droid phone. The ipad is to me, a large screen Droid. Do I need to pay $500 for a larger version of a device already own?
I think if you have a computer and you have a smartphone like Droid or iPhone then you don’t need a 3rd computing device.
