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iPad helps run Norway remotely, officially a productivity device

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We’ve all read how the iPad is primarily a consumption device and that it’s not good for productivity, blah, blah, blah. Well, one prime minister stranded in a foreign airport has killed that myth by using an iPad to help run his country remotely.

Unable to return home from the U.S. nuclear summit due to the massive volcanic eruption in Iceland, Norway’s prime minister Jens Stoltenberg is making the best of the situation and relying on mobile technology to stay connected, including an iPad, which I assume he bought while here in New York. From CNN:

“It’s very normal for a PM to travel abroad so this is not different from the other travels, it’s just lasts some days more than expected. We have the internet, the mobile phone.

“I also use an iPad, which is excellent.”

There you go. A sky filled with ash and molten chunks of earth keeping you from returning home to manage your national government? There’s an app for that.

Hat tip to Gizmodo

Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/statsministerenskontor/ / CC BY-ND 2.0

6 Comments

6 Comments

  1. turn.self.off

    04/16/2010 at 10:19 am

    what the…

    crap, crap and triple crap. Now there will be no stopping the faithful…

  2. ChrisRS

    04/16/2010 at 2:35 pm

    Meh

    This will be a big deal to everyone already sold on the iPad as a productivity device.

    This will be controversial, but in reality a PM or other high level executive is really a comnsumer of date, not a producer of data. Reading and briefly responding to emails, reviewing briefing papers, viewing power powerpoint point presentaions, etc. are all well within the capabilities of the iPad. Producing and editing those same items – no so much.

    The iPad is still a companion device. It this case, I am guessing that it is a companion divice to several staff members with high powered laptops and communication devices.

  3. enterman

    04/16/2010 at 5:39 pm

    Are you implying he couldn’t of done this with ANY other device besides the iPad? People really need to get out the denial stage already and get on with their lives.

    • Sumocat

      04/16/2010 at 7:18 pm

      That’s absurd. Any functional literate would recognize there’s no basis for such an inference. If there was, they would have pointed it out.

  4. AP

    04/16/2010 at 8:41 pm

    Politician and productivity don’t go in the same sentence..

    • turn.self.off

      04/17/2010 at 5:25 am

      that i can agree with ;)

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