Introduction
Your Ultimate iPad
Back in 2010, I remember watching Steve Jobs introduce the iPad. I was skeptical. No keyboard? No USB port? Same (or similar) operating system as the one I’d seen on the iPhone? (I wasn’t convinced of the iPhone, either). I listened to the list of things this new tablet could do, comparing it to the various tasks I was already performing with my laptop. What was the big deal?
But as I sat there for a few hours, browsing the Internet, sending some emails, listening to my music, and collecting information for a book proposal I was writing, the battery on my laptop died. I’d gotten about three hours of work from the battery and was now looking at having to head to my office to finish what I was doing on the large, ...
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