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Re:Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles by alex_c on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @06:28PM (#3050192)
>Doctors need to enter lots of information and prefer a laptop / proper keyboard.

Any reference for that?

Re:Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles by gnaffle on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @07:00PM (#3050297)
Well, an anti-reference: The (admittedly few) doctors I know enter simple keywords into some predetermined fields - perfect for an iPad. For anything longer they record a message that someone else transcribes.
Re:Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles by jgmatpdx on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @06:36PM (#3050221)
I would also be mildly skeptical about that claim; I think there have been some fairly successful uses of custom UIs in medicine.