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From: nospam on 7 Jul 2010 18:15 In article <m2iq4ruerz.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > ios devices are not intended to replace personal computers. > > And Personal Computers were never intended to be used for what most > people use them for today ;-) ken olsen of digital equipment corporation only thought a handful of computers would be sold, total, and he couldn't see why anyone would want one in their house. oddly enough, people are saying the same thing about ipads, why would you want an ipad when you can get a laptop. they just don't get it.
From: bj on 7 Jul 2010 18:28 You are free to start your own company & produce the products you think there's a market for. If you're right about what's needed, you'll make money. If not, you'll go broke. But you'll have the device *you* want. bj "AES" <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote in message news:siegman-4AAD77.14285007072010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu... > > ... > One major problem, however, is that there are also a smaller but quite > substantial number of us who are more than just "media consumers", but > still a long way from "geekly jailbreaking techies". > > That is, we're people who genuinely need, and will continue to need, for > our personal, professional, academic, creative, and even just > avocational needs, the sort of fully and totally open, file-centric not > app-centric information processing and IT capabilities that have been > made available to us for a quarter of a century now by the Mac OS and by > other personal computers. A closed and Apple-controlled iOS environment > is not going to be an adequate replacement for this. > > A second problem may arise if all the best talents and creativity at > Apple, along with all the best talents and creativity in the broader IT > world, begin to be redirected away from the open OS X and Mac universe > and into the iOS and iGadget universe. > > This will not be a Good Thing (in the same way as it was not a Good > Thing when commercial forces and the influence of the enterprise world a > decade or two back diverted much of the broader IT talent away from the > Mac OS and toward the Windows world). > > A third potential problem is that it's an inherently Bad Thing whenever > most any large-scale aspect of our basic environment or our basic > infrastructure is controlled {"tightly controlled", in fact) by a single > company, however insanely great that company or that infrastructure may > seem at first: it's called monopoly. > > So, we'll have to see what comes of all this, over time . . .
From: Wes Groleau on 7 Jul 2010 20:06 On 07-07-2010 11:33, Michelle Steiner quoted: > And of course she dutifully took notes (longhand, on a notepad) also for > the 147th time, carefully listing out the steps to each task, how many If it were my mother, they'd be in Gregg shorthand. :-) -- Wes Groleau First Language Acquisition observed up—close & personal http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1349
From: Wes Groleau on 7 Jul 2010 20:14 On 07-07-2010 17:28, AES wrote: > A third potential problem is that it's an inherently Bad Thing whenever > most any large-scale aspect of our basic environment or our basic > infrastructure is controlled {"tightly controlled", in fact) by a single > company, however insanely great that company or that infrastructure may > seem at first: it's called monopoly. Are you sure it's not called Microsoft? :-) I remember when I worried that our (USA's) defense capability seemed like it was becoming dependent on semiconductor plants in other countries. I worried even more when it looked like it was becoming dependent on Microsoft. But to my relief, about that time, they discovered Solaris, HPUX, and Linux. And now I hear rumors of iPhone apps for soldiers, ... -- Wes Groleau Thinking it Through, Two http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=506
From: Wes Groleau on 7 Jul 2010 20:18
On 07-07-2010 17:28, AES wrote: > That is, we're people who genuinely need, and will continue to need, for > our personal, professional, academic, creative, and even just > avocational needs, the sort of fully and totally open, file-centric not > app-centric information processing and IT capabilities that have been > made available to us for a quarter of a century now by the Mac OS and by > other personal computers. A closed and Apple-controlled iOS environment > is not going to be an adequate replacement for this. So try a Modbook. Or buy that touch-screen kit for a flat iMac. Or just keep on using your Macbook. Hmmm, not long ago we had a flurry of predictions of a touch-screen iMac this summer. Which faded to silence before summer even started. . . . . -- Wes Groleau Free Reading in the FL Class http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1559 |