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Re:Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles by CJefferson on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @07:23PM (#3050383)
You mention researchers and logicians using the iPad. Can you give any examples?

I tried using the iPad, but the lack of support for LaTeX or papers in svn, git or mercurial repositories made it completely unusable for anything resembling work.

Re:Daring Fireball: Amazon's New Kindles by alttag on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @08:11PM (#3050533)
In my field (Information Systems), most papers are served as PDFs. My advisor has switched almost entirely to his iPad for most work, especially when reading/annotating articles.

Most journals in my field require Word docs, and don't use LaTeX. It's been my observation that the field is filled with business people who use computers, and relatively fewer computer people who ended up in business. Sure, there are some of each, but the former seem to outnumber the latter.