Anyone have any work arounds? No news from either developer… Post here if you have any news!

The iPad represents one of the most intuitive ways to manage email and I find I can blast through it each morning on the train, marking unread the items that require deeper assistance with my laptop (which I now leave in the office).

If I need access to any web apps safari or individual apps provide all the access I need (evernote, omnifocus, gmail). If anything requires more robust formatting or graphics tweaking, I move the drafted doc to my laptop-as-desktop via evernote, email or pages to email.

Whats striking after a month is that with mobile me and dropbox, I can keep all of my machines (including the iPad in sync quite seamlessly. This makes me yearn for a true desktop both at home and at work…a bit ironically perhaps.

I’d venture a guess that other traditional laptop only-types like me might have the same urge. So my conclusion is that desktop mac sales might actually see an increase in popularity with the advent and wider adoption of the iPad, I am curious what others think…

Only bummer is Jobsco can’t control the crappy network service AT&T is attempting to provide (which is soiling the reputation of the iPhone and hurting it’s growth.) I am a resident of a suburb of New York City. Each day thousands of iPhone users and I struggle through a dark commute. The AT&T service basically is non – usable for 80% of the ride (see image below: the box represents little or no service). This is inexcusable and destroys almost 2 hours a day of productive time.

Sad thing for Apple is there is little utility for a fantastic device if it can’t access the web. FYI: Verizon subscribers have connectivity the entire way. (I tested this myself on a droid for 2 weeks).

Further bad news for Apple: I have watched as many familiar train faces have shown up with new Verizon blackberries or Droids. Folks are to putting down their iPhones for a better network, or even worse, starting to carry two devices (this wastes money and kills the elegance of a single device, charger, platform, etc. Thanks to AT&T, technology has once again made people’s lives more complicated- shame on them). This New England commuter use case demonstrates further why Apple needs to build a CDMA iPhone folks could use on the superior Verizon network. I would pay full price at this point for a CDMA and contract free Verizon iPhone, as I am sure many others would from DC to Boston.

Simply stated AT&T service is horrible on my commute from Fairfield county to New York City. This is an affluent demographic that would likely pay full bullet for a data plan for the forthcoming iPad…but no one will till there is a CDMA version of the iPad or they buy a MIFI. AT&T’s argument that most recent network speed (not coverage consistency!) test that declared them winner (which is suspect in my mind…they clearly test in favorable environments and definitely do not test the common use cases of millions of commuter each day.)

AT&T got lucky with the iPhone. It covered up a glaring wound in their network… and they better bend over for Steve to keep the exclusivity so all the iPhone hardware loyalists theoretically stay locked in to a second tier network. As soon as there is a CDMA iPhone, you can bet on a mass exodus from ATT.

Its too bad amazing hardware doesn’t make up for crappy network coverage. For the love of god, Verizon and Apple, will you please get this deal done, its a no brainer!

I cant wait till someone figures this out for project planning and contextual information linking!

They have a great service, no doubt, but thier approach to customers and their use of their service is really sad and reminds me of the old command and control regimes of the past. They still lock down their devices — last I checked they were still unwilling to let people add 3rd party software to the phones they own. Its too bad they still carry this arrogance. With the service they deliver in terms of data speed, it would seem they would win a lot of goodwill if they would treat their customers like people.

As Lidja Davis from ReadWriteWeb states:

Perhaps it’s time the company started putting some of its energy into the Twitter account it set up, and got up close and personal to its community and their needs.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

This is a well thought out and designed explanation of why we are going through this craziness.

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Not that we need more bureaucracy in this fine city, but this ugliness needs to go away to make the city more attractive and more livable for those of us who pay taxes here.

Is it me or does this product android shot from Uncle Walt’s blog look suspiciously like a Microsoft IE browser? It looks like someone, (not Google) hacked something up and used a windows browser.

If T-Mobile did this screen shot, they are off to a rocky start with the Goog!