The iPad: a great tool for bloggers
I’m not too much of an Apple fan. To me: Apple products, with their streamline engineering and dumbified interfaces, have become somewhat of a cliche. Kind of like the Mustangs of the automobile industry. The 2010 Mustang might be a kick-ass car but seeing it on the road after every 40 cars just leaves a bad impression.
However, if the 2011 Ford Mustang fits my specific needs as a driver, I might actually consider buying one. Likewise, if Apple created a product that fits my specific needs as a blogger, I might consider buying it.
According to Nancy Nally of the WebWorkerDaily, the iPad can serve as an excellent tool for bloggers because of its insignificant weight, operating system compatibility, speed, connectivity and battery life.
I’m not the only writer or blogger who thinks the iPad can help in their work. After a week with an iPad in hand, the Chicago Sun-Times’ Andy Ihnatko raved about how useful the gadget is for his workflow on TWIT last week. Mashable’s Ben Parr wrote one of his recent posts completely on the iPad, although he admitted that a few things were a pain, like working with images.
Nally may be on to something here. Maybe the iPad, for some deep-pocketed bloggers, can serve as an excellent alternative to clunky and inconvenient laptops.
Thoughts? Leave a comment.
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I’m not a serious blogger, and I can blog just as easily on a laptop or my mac which has a real keyboard. I’m not dropping the 400-500 dollars just for a blogging tool
Unlike Nate, I’m serious about my blogging. But, like him, I don’t want to drag it around through life like an unfortunate Siamese head sticking out of my stomach.
When I go into my home office, I’m all about writing. And reading. And researching. And writing some more. Every word matters to me and I try to crank out enough of them for the sum total of them to matter long after I’m gone.
But when I get together with friends, use the toilet, step out for a coffee, go camping — whatever — I don’t waste that time writing about life … I spend it actually living it.
The iPad does not at $400+ worth of function to my life.