iPad

the tablet PC from Apple

iPad is the tablet PC from Apple. iPad is a portable multimedia-device, a computer equipped with a multi-touchscreen of 24,6 centimeter and weighs about 700 grammes. It uses the same operating system, iOS, as the iPhone and iPod touch which makes it in fact the bigger brother of these devices. You do not use a stylus for controlling the iPad, as it can be for other tablet PC’s, but you use your fingers on the screen to click, to swipe or to enlarge.

The basic idea of tablet PC’s is not new and many manufacturers have tried it, with little success. When Apple's chairman Steve Jobs launced the iPad during a press conference in San Francisco on the 27th of January 2010, a shock went through the audience and the computer world.

iPad software
The Apple tablet iPad is very suitable for reading books, magazines and newspapers, listening to music, and watching films or playing games, e-mailing and browsing the internet. The iPad fills the market between an iPhone an the laptop or MacBook. The iPhone is fitted with a rather small screen, the laptop is more seen as a working station. For everybody in trains, plains, presentations, meetings, or simply at home on the couch, the iPad claims to be the ideal mix for all purposes.

Apple’s iPad is provided with software like Safari, Mail, Photo's, Video's, YouTube, iPod, iTunes Store, AppStore, Google Maps, Notes, Agenda, Contacten and Spotlight. The user of an iPad can enrich his or her devicewith thousands of apps from the AppStore. Some apps are free of charge, others are paid. For iPad users there are specifieke iPad-apps available.

iPad business
For business purposes Apple has launched a special version of iWork in the AppStore. iWork includes the text editor Pages, the presentation programm Keynote and the spreadsheet programm Numbers. All have been optimised for iPad usage. iWork is compatible with files from Microsoft Office.

The iPad tablet comes with a long battery endurance, longer than a laptop, because installed applications do not run on the same time with other applications. In the future it might be possible to multitask on the iPad.

The iPad was first launched in the United States of America, followed by France, Germany, Japan and other countries. The iPad is available in the Netherlands and Belgium since the 23 of July 2010. With millions iPad tablets sold it has to be conlcuded that the iPad is a great success and a new market, even more a new way of using the computer, is born. In the beginning of 2011 the iPad2 has been launched, containing a fat-free screen that does not reflect, a webcam to the front and the back end, smaller, lighter, faster and is provided with an HDMI-out and a screen protector included.

Push2Tablet and iPad
Push2Tablet is extremely suitable for publishing on iPad, the most successfull tablet so far. The architecture, the programming and it's procedures and working methods provide that existing PDF files of publishers are easy to enrich with mutlimedia and interactivity. Via the reader-app Tablisto these PDF files work perfectly and with an unknown reading experience on iPads.