Every year, the week after Christmas, I get questions about this at work. I figured I’d do a post on it. If you know anyone who gets an iPad for Christmas (especially older folks), you might want to show them this post.<\/p>\n
At work, we distribute third-party tutorial software that was written for PCs. The last week of December, I get a lot of questions like, “I got an iPad for Christmas. I can’t install your software on my iPad. Please help.”<\/p>\n
The thing is, iPads don’t run PC software. iPads run apps, which are downloaded from Apple’s iTunes App Store.<\/p>\n
“But I’ve heard your software runs on a Mac. So shouldn’t it run on my iPad too?”<\/p>\n
It’s true that PC software can run on Macs, if software is installed on the Mac to allow it to run Windows. However, iPads are not Macs. That’s a common misunderstanding. Both products are made by Apple, but they are different products. It’s much more accurate to think of an iPad as a big iPhone, minus the phone capability, than it is to think of it as a little Mac.<\/p>\n
“So you’re saying an iPad is not a computer?”<\/p>\n
Yes, it is a computer (and so is an iPhone), but it will help you to instead think of the iPad as a mobile device, while thinking of PCs and Macs as real computers.<\/p>\n
Similarly, if you receive a Kindle Fire for Christmas, it’s more accurate to think of it as a big Android phone minus the phone, than as a PC. PC software won’t run on it either. You get your Kindle Fire software through the appstore Amazon links to on your tablet, under the “Apps” tab.<\/p>\n
Hope this post helps those who are not computer-savvy who become iPad owners this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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