Tablet Computing Quotes

I've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with it.

The iPad is the clearest expression of our vision of the future of personal computing.

The cloud-powered smartphone and tablet, as productivity tools, are transforming the world around us along with the implied changes in how we work to be mobile and more social.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.

I think that some people will never buy a computer because I think now we're at the point where the iPad does what some people want to do with their PCs.

When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'

The iPad is creating a new format for reading content. One of the things that's happening as a result is the world of personalized news aggregators, which is a category that's been around for quite some time, is getting new life.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger.

I think the screen size chosen for the iPad is perfect for publishers to render content beautifully, for games to be played.

I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.

Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.

I use a lot of utility apps on my iPad, and I have four kinds of 'Angry Birds' games! I also use GarageBand to create demos.

The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook.

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

We believe that Apple has it wrong: they've talked about it being the post-PC era, they talk about the tablet and PC being different; the reality in our world is that we think that's completely incorrect.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.