Monday, April 26, 2010

iPad: Desktop app revisited

None of the apps out there that I have seen have as much potential, sheer raw potential as the desktop app for 0.99$. Price aside, this app let's you run several tasks at once, several limited tasks... What this got me to thinking, this and reading a PDF during a meeting and being forced to go old school and write on, gasp, paper, was what if you could house another app inside this one? What if the developer opened it up so that goodreader or memeo could be inside of this app? Goodreader and memeo are now integrated with one another, so why not?

If you could open more than one thing at a time what would you want to open? The obvious ones are taken care of already, you can already listen to music and read a book, but reading a PDF and taking notes seems to be a no brained... Before you tell me that pages and keynote can do it, I'm sure they can, but their reviews have been all over the place so I am steering clear for now... That's 20$ that could buy 10 other apps for me to review...:)

Reading a book from any source and taking notes would be good, but iBook being the primary interface for books is not going to allow its self to be run in some other app, but... Think about it mr developer of the desktop app, and get back to us would you? Beat apple to the multi tasking game, and better yet, do it better than they have thought of... Even with the multi tasking that is coming in the fall you can't open two things side by side and work on them at the same time like you can with the desktop app. The desktop app just needs apps that are actually useful and it will kick butt.

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