The iPad Apple tablet, one of the most trendy IT gadgets of the moment, which costs between 2,500 and 3,500 RON in Romania, rivalling some of the most expensive laptops on the market, cannot replace a portable computer, but scores points in terms of the speed at which it allows its users to go online, say two of the best-known IT entrepreneurs in Romania. Radu Apostolescu (marketing manager and shareholder of eMag) and Radu Georgescu (owner of the IT Gecad group) have recently acquired a tablet, and after a few days of using it, the two managers say iPad fills a void that could not be filled by a notebook or a telephone.
"I have to read emails at night and answer them quickly," says the Gecad manager. Instead of using the laptop, which takes a "whole" two minutes to boot and 'blinds' you when you turn it on, the iPad is preferable.
Radu Apostolescu, eMag's marketing manager and shareholder, says in turn that the iPad Apple tablet appears to be the right gadget for checking emails, networking websites, and for looking up any other type of information available online.
"(...) It is so easy to browse websites, emails, go on Twitter (on the iPad i.e.), that you will soon mistake it for the TV remote control. It boots instantly at the press of a button and applications open just as fast (...)," the eMag manager writes on his own blog.
Marius Ghenea, owner of IT&C company Fit Distribution, which operates both in online retail, and in IT&C distribution, stands by his opinion, that the iPad is not a gadget for businesspeople.
"As far as I am concerned, the iPad targets consumers for whom gadgets are a hobby," Ghenea says.
The iPad Apple tablet, one of the most trendy IT gadgets of the moment, which costs between 2,500 and 3,500 RON in Romania, rivalling some of the most expensive laptops on the market, cannot replace a portable computer, b
