With sales of Paper at High Levels, is the iPad doomed?

[highwaystar101]

famousringo said:

highwaystar101 said:

This has reminded me of something that happened a couple of months ago. I was at a seminar and there was a guy in the row in front of me who was taking notes on an iPad. We had to sign a register, which we passed round.

When the register reached the guy with the iPad he turned to the man behind him and asked to borrow a pencil. The man handed him a pencil and the guy with the iPad said (quite sincerely) "Thanks, I don't carry pens any more because I write everything on my iPad"

I thought "well done, you've replaced the useful £1 pen with a less useful £500 iPad" /sarcasm. It's not something you should say with pride.

And in exchange, all he got were notes that are easily copied, edited, stored, transferred, searched and backed up. Oh, the folly!

Seriously, paperless offices cost less and are more productive. Tablets are the biggest advancement towards the paperless society since email. That registry could have easily been replaced by an electronic form, and then it too could have been easily copied, edited, stored, transferred, searched and backed up.

I'm all for a paperless office that works, but taking notes in a technical seminar is far more easily done with a pen and paper.

Even so, why not carry an tablet AND a pen?

The pen is not obsolete, it hasn't been replaced. It still does a lot of things that tablets just aren't commonly used for yet.

That said, I still plan out ideas with a pencil and paper before I build a computer program, write a document or or build some hardware. Maybe I'm just old fashioned