10 - Arcpad
There was ArcPad 10.
Now the younger techs ask, “What’s ArcPad?” They use Collector, Field Maps, some app that auto-syncs to a portal that syncs to a dashboard that their boss watches in real time from an office with no windows. arcpad 10
But sometimes, deep in a ravine where the bars on your phone disappear, you miss it. The simplicity. The offline grit. The small ceremony of docking the handheld and watching the checkmark appear. There was ArcPad 10
Because ArcPad 10 understood the field.
