I have attempted to use my iPad for 2 months since my wife purchased a Hyundai Equus and received one as part of the purchase. While we absolutely love the car, the entire two months with the iPad have been a source of extreme frustration in trying to accomplish the most basic functions: connecting to my network printer and play any Flash streaming feeds. I cannot understand why anyone would tolerate the crap Apple is providing with thier proprietary, closed approach to computing.
Before I put this pos into the garbage, can anyone tell me how to attach my netwoked Canon MX 870 printer to this piece of junk?
As an IT professional with 40+ years of systems (hardware & OS) development experience, I cannot recall a more frustrating two months in my professional career. I will not recommend this technology to any of my 100+ clients.
Thanks,
paraj77
Some here have been harsh, I will not be, because I
am an IT vet of over 20+ years myself.
I've worked with both PC's and IBM mainframes so I
DO understand your point of view. It's wrong and dated,
yet I can understand it. I've worked on many complcated
IT programmming projects in the auto industry.
That being said, take a minute and think out of your
IT box a minute. Today, whats emerging is no longer
application centric, but instead plug in centric. Phones,
tablets, eReaders, even small notebooks are as powerfull
as a computer of 20 years ago.
A typical iPad app has no way of printing by itself (most of them).
It is a plug in for a simple task, capable of a few specific things.
Thats why its cheap, not bloated, and can do those few things
well.
So, if you get an app like FingerPrint, it also does one thing well,
it prints and plugs into your other apps to do so.
Collobos Software
Think of many small apps as building blocks, that you
give to the end user, who can configure to their personal tastes
not yours...theirs. This may be threating to professionals like us because
it could hinder job secuirty, if we dont change our thinking
and fast.
With my iPad2 in less then a week I was able to:
Log into my windows work network.
Send email with Microsoft Exchange ar work.
Run a 5252 emulation to an IBM iSeries.
VPN (remote control) from home to work and back again.
Enable file sharing.
So, you haven't looked real hard, have you?
I have found most of my answers by asking questions
and having an open mind. I dont plan on giving up my
work or home PC, I plan in using them with other
devices to the fullest. In fact I just biullt a state
of the art PC for home useage, not a Mac.
So we can either embrace the change, or swim
with the fishes.