The Apple iPad in manufacturing

Magazine Article, Source : The Manufacturer
Zone : IT in manufacturing
Published : February 2010

On Wednesday 27th January 2010 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveiled their latest creation – the iPad Tablet. Billed primarily as a consumer device, Jobs positioned the tablet somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop and priced it from an attractive US$499. But is there room for it in business, and specifically within manufacturing? Martin Bailey reports...

The iPad is essentially an iPhone ‘on steroids’. Weighing in at 1.5lb (0.68kg) it has a 9.7” multi-touch screen, speaker, microphone, compass, accelerometer, (so it knows if it’s being tilted and rotates the screen accordingly), Wi-Fi (the faster...

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