Is the iPad not the perfect portable thin client?
Check out the Wyse PocketCloud app and imagine this running on something with the screen size and fluidity of the iPad.
So when you need the heavy lifting of a “real PC” you connect to your virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), with or without an external keyboard, depending on where you happen to be, but while you’re on the road, you have all of your essential applications like mail and calendar that of course are running IMAP/CalDAV or Exchange ActiveSync so everything is synced back to the server for when you use desktop clients.
I always thought this was a really well done application, but the limitations of the iPhone screen size made it mostly just for emergencies. On an iPad however…and with an unlimited 3G connection…
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