Ben Lovejoy reported on a great story this week from Business Insider which illustrates where iPads are beating laptops in the business world. This story hit close to hoe for me because I’m also finding an iPad superior to my laptop on a daily basis in my own accounting job.
The technology head of construction company Rogers-O’Brien says that using iPads saves the company $1.8M a year, including 55,000 hours of reductions in working time.
In particular, says Todd Wynne, iPads solve a recurring problem that no-one outside the construction industry would ever guess existed …
With paper-based plans, he told Business Insider, there were always multiple versions floating around – and it was frustratingly easy for construction to begin based on an outdated version. When that happened, they’d have to tear down the work and start again.
Building plans are now stored in the cloud and everyone works off the same always-updated version. So if an architect or engineer makes a change, that change is instantly available, via the iPad, in the field.
“We call it the ‘One Truth.’ Everyone works off the One Truth,” he says. He estimates each project saves about 7% on costs just from this.
I find my iPad much more convenient to use than my laptop for a number of reasons. If I need to pull the keyboard off and take my iPad with me out into the plant it’s quite comfortable. There’s no good way to walk around with a laptop. But writing in my 10.5” iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil is a piece of cake.
Also, I find myself using the camera on my iPad more and more for business reasons. From taking pictures of white board notes to taking pictures of computer screens for my records. The camera on every laptop I’ve ever used sucks. Even if it was good, it’s placed in the wrong place for doing real work with it. It would need to be pointed out the back to be useful, not forward overlooking the keyboard. Video chats are almost never done in the business world. We do a lot of sharing of screens but rarely need to stare at one other’s faces.
Laptops are the tools of writers, programmers, and other niche professions. But laptops are not the best tools for those in business. And this is fast becoming apparent to the rank-and-file in the business world. The problem is that the rank-and-file don’t buy their own equipment. Corporate IT managers looking to beat their budget have dampened the rate of change.
I’ve already written many times about how much I prefer writing on my iPad over using a paper notebook. Text manipulation with GoodNotes and my Apple Pencil is far faster and more enjoyable than I’ve ever experienced on a laptop. Searchable notes, easily shareable, and synced to my iPhone. The reaction by people around me has been overwhelmingly positive to the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil and all of its advantages over paper.
I can sense a wholesale shift coming in the future for corporations to start switching from laptops to tablets. It may not be next year or the year after, but it’s coming.
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In particular, says Todd Wynne, iPads solve a recurring problem that no-one outside the construction industry would ever guess existed …
With paper-based plans, he told Business Insider, there were always multiple versions floating around – and it was frustratingly easy for construction to begin based on an outdated version. When that happened, they’d have to tear down the work and start again.
Building plans are now stored in the cloud and everyone works off the same always-updated version. So if an architect or engineer makes a change, that change is instantly available, via the iPad, in the field.
“We call it the ‘One Truth.’ Everyone works off the One Truth,” he says. He estimates each project saves about 7% on costs just from this.
I find my iPad much more convenient to use than my laptop for a number of reasons. If I need to pull the keyboard off and take my iPad with me out into the plant it’s quite comfortable. There’s no good way to walk around with a laptop. But writing in my 10.5” iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil is a piece of cake.
Also, I find myself using the camera on my iPad more and more for business reasons. From taking pictures of white board notes to taking pictures of computer screens for my records. The camera on every laptop I’ve ever used sucks. Even if it was good, it’s placed in the wrong place for doing real work with it. It would need to be pointed out the back to be useful, not forward overlooking the keyboard. Video chats are almost never done in the business world. We do a lot of sharing of screens but rarely need to stare at one other’s faces.
Laptops are the tools of writers, programmers, and other niche professions. But laptops are not the best tools for those in business. And this is fast becoming apparent to the rank-and-file in the business world. The problem is that the rank-and-file don’t buy their own equipment. Corporate IT managers looking to beat their budget have dampened the rate of change.
I’ve already written many times about how much I prefer writing on my iPad over using a paper notebook. Text manipulation with GoodNotes and my Apple Pencil is far faster and more enjoyable than I’ve ever experienced on a laptop. Searchable notes, easily shareable, and synced to my iPhone. The reaction by people around me has been overwhelmingly positive to the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil and all of its advantages over paper.
I can sense a wholesale shift coming in the future for corporations to start switching from laptops to tablets. It may not be next year or the year after, but it’s coming.
Now available in iBooks —> The Tesla Bubble
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