Law Technology

An Applica ? What My iPad Needs!

By Ross

I’m not sure why this didn’t occur to me earlier . . . but, whatever – better late than never. I was thinking about the newly announced Lenovo U1 Hybrid – an ingeniousChinese-market-only (for now) mashup of Android tablet and netbook. What struck me about this system – which looks like a normal Windows 7-based netbook untilt the 11″ screen actually pops out and can independently run as an Android tablet – is that it’s missing something. In fact, all tablets of the Android and iPad variety are.

Apps that replicate the functions of the applications we use on Windows (or Mac) systems. Replicas of apps.

Applicas.

Why can’t I have an iPad app that works like Microsoft Word – it can be a stripped down text editor even, but one that saves my files in .DOCX format. How about a PowerPoint applica? Why don’t these exist? So I write in Pages on my iPad with my Apple bluetooth keyboard, but then I have to deal with Pages/Word issues. Which, frankly, sucks.

So a call to the legions of clever Android and iPad app developers – it’s time to crank out some applicas!

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Full post as published by Ross Ipsa Loquitur on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).