History of my experience with DOS-based PCs, Unix-based Servers, Windows-based PCs, Windows Servers, and finally falling in love with my MacBook Pro, iPad and Droid.
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, said that iPads had to do certain things better than other devices to become their own product class. IPads do movies incredibly well. There is something amazing about carrying a very good sized screen with incredible resolution that only weighs 1.5 lbs in your hand. I recently bought Avatar on iTunes and even though I originally saw it in 3D in the theatre, I didn't feel let down watching it on the iPad. The picture quality was so clear.
I've been customizing this. I've added Translator (it helped the other day when someone called speaking Spanish. I minored in Spanish and was a little rusty so the Translator helped fill in the gaps.
The converter is amazing. It converts:
Money
Lengths
Volume
Power
Pressure
Speed
Temperature
Time
Weight
I like the stock list with small chart for each stock. Flight tracker and New Movies are great.
It all began in the 12th grade of high school in 1978 with a computer programming class. We wrote programs by filling in ovals on computer cards and feeding them into a card reader. Boring! The only time it got fun was to drop a card in someone's stack of cards that the ovals made the command "BYE". This would stop the program, log the computer off and cause the computer operator to scream (for some reason). I had no reason to want ever to use computers. However, while working on my MBA in 1984, I took a computer programming class in Pascal where you got to write your programs on a computer screen (CRT) and run the program without getting up from your seat. That very act of typing a bunch of words that made a computer print something, calculate something and draw something on the screen was incredibly fascinating.