Apple has a way of selling things. They get sexy. They get elitism. They get that my developers will hit me up for their own iPads in the name of “research and development”.
But will there be a special place for the iPad in the annals of staffing software? Oh we’ll pretend it does. We’ll be demoing our mobile apps with it at conferences. TempWorks gets sexy. We get elitism as well.
I went to Best Buy last night and found the Apple iPad table surrounded by curiosity seekers. Some were reading Winnie the Pooh, but the most serious were playing on the piano program.
The iPad. Too heavy, too expensive, too same-old-same-old. Not the best choice for mobile recruiting software. Not practical for desktop recruitment either.
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Checked it out at the Apple store…it has some cool features for reading books such as clicking on a word and being able to see the definition in a popup window, bookmarking words is pretty cool too. Other than that it’s nothing more than a giant ipod touch/PDA.
Maybe that will change when some revolutionary apps come out, until then, there’s nothing special about this product.
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hi Jason…so any idea what makes Apple stock keep going up then?
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Best feature I can see is air travel. How much real computing do we do/need on a 3 day biz trip to Dallas? Not much. Web, email and media and the TSA won’t require us to scan it, that is till some knucklehead terrorist/Microsoft lover/Apple hater makes it into a bomb. No doubt it’s a luxury, but in the world of gadgets $500 is relatively cheap. In the Apple world it’s a downright bargain, think $1500 Macbook Air. Little doubt they will sell like umbrellas in monsoon season.
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Apple has a knack for creating its own eco-system. Look what happens when they decide that Flash will not be supported. Vendors start jumping to Html5 & CTOs have to reconsider the use of Flash going forward. I am sure the iPad will sneek into your industry as well. Add to that support for Word processing (as an app or via google docs) & you have a pretty useful piece of hardware.
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One group it will serve well are those who travel and sell. I’m no fan of apple, but as a piece of kit for preparing and delivering a sales pitch with style…. yeah, I can see that…
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Couple introductions here. Jason is my nephew, a film maker and student at Cal State Northridge. Jack runs TempWorks Venture, our funding and outsourcing division. Arif is a developer extraordinaire and longtime TempWorks alum, now living back in Chicago. James runs UK-based Twitter job search wunder-site http://www.tweetjobs.net/.
Thanks for the input guys!
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I’ve talked to a few friends about it. They seem interested in being able to do quick tasks easily like watching movies, playing music, checking emails, playing games.
Now with multi-tasking in iPhone OS 4 that will help keep it alive.
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