Brave ideas!

I love when a brave idea is undertaken by a brave soul and changes my life in such a positive way.  Apparently in 2005, when I was slogging through with just a pc laptop and brick sized smart phone (that was not really all that smart), there was some brilliant engineer who had a better vision of the future.  One that a brave man with lots of resources agreed to adapt and adopt and manufacture.

The iPad has again revolutionized my business the way that my first Compac laptop did in about 1989.  It weighed a ton (ok, maybe six or seven pounds) and had to be plugged in almost all the time.  But it allowed me to be in a courthouse reviewing deeds while entering them on a spreadsheet - saving that double entry time of writing them down and entering them on a desktop.

The leaps here with the iPad have been even more dramatic (or the older I get the more easily amused I am).  With GPS and immediate mapping feedback, the ability to look up sales data on the fly - out in the field, sending an email in an instant, responding right away to a client, and a host of other cool applications (yes that is the longer version of APP) make it a game changer.

When I saw this link on Facebook today, I just wanted to say, outloud, that we always need to honor and support and respect that kind of innovation and willingness to risk.  What if Jobs had not taken that leap or that engineer had not bothered to create this design - time and energy and financial risk that may not have returned anything.  Congratulations, thank you, and keep up the good work!