14 DAY TRIAL // Software developer Fraser Spiers is making notes on the iPad UI conventions culled from public sources (mostly Apple promotional videos), concluding that it’s going to provide a great experience, for any kind of user.
“Look at what’s in here: a full stylesheet engine, multi-column page layout, a complete library of cell formulae and a full set of builds and transitions. You can create a Magic Move transition on the iPad. That’s probably the most advanced technique you can do in Keynote, and it’s there on the iPad,” Spiers says, according to a report by Cult of Mac.
Spiers adds, “For me, the iPad is all about freeing up content creation. A much wider spectrum of users will be able to use it. Children will take to it even more naturally than writing because they just have to touch it. Other people who just are not currently comfortable with the computer will suddenly have so much more confidence because there is so little to learn. But it is even more than freeing up who can create content, it is also about where you create content. If you get a creative urge whilst watching the TV, you can just doodle away on your lap, putting it down and taking it up whenever you feel like it.”
The developer continues to explain why the iPad is going to be a runaway hit, saying that, “Reading and writing become much closer to the same experience because you can just flick from your ebook to your note taker and back again all in a form factor you can use whilst standing on the train.”
Spiers goes to offer an example of how a geologist working in the field would make good use of the device. He upholds that, “Something so light and so usable really will change the way that we create things in response to the world around us. For me, I think the iPad will change the world even more than the iPhone.”