Survey: Working on the go will be top iPad use case

This poll would have been more useful if they had polled people who plan to buy an iPad. It seems most of these people don't plan to buy one. This would be like asking your grandmother what she would do with an iPad. "Um, I guess I would set my drinks on it."

I regularly import and export both Word and Powerpoint format with iWork.

Interestingly, I find iWork is often more compatible with documents I receive from Windows Office users than my install of Office for Mac.

More amusing is that I find I can make up for some missing features in iWork by importing documents from Word into Pages and saving paragraph types as styles that I can't create directly in Pages. It seems that the internal structure of at least Pages is more capable than the user interface exposes.

I am buying a wifi model for the house (since my wife has only recently begun to use a computer--the ipad should work nicely). However, for myself I am getting a 3g model, because I think it will be very handy in my job as a hotshot freight driver in and around Texas (quite often far away from any wifi connections).

I intend to wear out google maps on my ipad (all the various "views"), TXDot's website to check on road construction before I get caught in it, the usual cheapgas websites, and to keep up with my "bbq joints i need to checkout" list. I might also learn to utilize the device to help me find a load coming back.

The money I will save on time, gas, etc--along with the fact that I will be getting unlimited access for $30 a month instead of an AT&T (5G limit) aircard/dongle at $60 a month--should help the ipad pay for itself. I understand that I can do most of this stuff on a smartphone--but the added real estate and (the reported) responsiveness will be yet another plus.

well, in time we'll see the result. Work, watch movies and television, or play games, full use of it is OK. I think i will use it to watch movies and play games mostly, now i gathered many games for it, share to you this game list: http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/10-best-ipad-games-we-can-not-wait-to-play.html

I can't see the iPad being taken seriously as a "work" device unless there are apps which allow for digital ink (something similar to MS Journal), and there is a rear facing camera for in field documentation.

Work users would be comprised of a mobile work force, not employees who want to read the WSJ and watch YouTube while in the bathroom stall.

I plan on having no plan and enjoying the process of discovery. What is it? What can it do? What apps don't we even know about yet that may become blockbusters and shift the way we see the iPad? Loosen up folks, don't constrain such a great potential by trying to fit it into boxes we are already familiar with.

I'm kind of excited to try it as a giant trackpad. A while ago, I tried a few apps that enabled the iPhone/iPod touch as a touch-interface remote for your desktop (usually over wifi). I never liked them -- mostly because of the small size of the iPhone's screen. With the iPad's bigger screen you could (feasibly) write an app that allowed a more spacious interface, as well as moving the file/folder system off of the main display (imagine opening Finder on your ipad and having the quick view pop up on your main display, or vice-versa.

I see my iPad getting a lot of toilet time for both work and play.

If by "working on the go" you mean watching and listening to online media, then yes, most people will be using it for work.

I wonder if there will be an iPad backlash when the average consumer discovers the hard way after spending $20-30 on iWork for the iPad, it can't save to Excel or Powerpoint formats?