From The Progressive Accountant:
CPAs need to include the growing arsenal of Tablet tools within their strategic technology planning. For firms, clients, enterprises and individuals, it is clear that the future use of computing will be centered on Web browsing, applications and media consumption. The four-year explosion and adoption of smartphones and tablets are past their version 1 beta testing mentality.
Sadly, most firms probably don’t have a strategic technology plan.
Tomorrow is a big day for all the Apple fanboys (me included) as we await for Apple’s newest creation. There are many rumors and predictions on what it could be, what it’ll look like, and its capabilities. Steve Jobs never fails to surprise, so tomorrow I expect to be surprised. At this point, I don’t think anyone thinks that this device will be a one trick pony. That is, it is not simply a reading device because we all now what Jobs thinks of Amazon’s Kindle:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
Its a device that will live somewhere between an iPhone and a notebook. Currently the iPhone packs just enough computing power to to get you through your day (or at lease it gets Steve Rubel through his day), but the computing power is not enough to do some serious work. The notebook on the other hand can handle every computing need you have but its still too clunky (think notebook bag, power cords, mouse, etc).
So, I think the tablet will be somewhere in between as far as computing power is concerned and ultra-portable but not pocket size. My prediction:
Whatever it is, be prepared to drool.
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