Posted on 04/18/2010 2:09:43 AM PDT by Swordmaker
See # 20. When I swapped my Apple //GS for a Mac, I did so for a "mobile device" -- and I have owned and used nothing else ever since.
Right now, I defy you to show me a job I can't do superbly well on my MacBook Pro (with external displays, etc...).
And, in case you haven't looked up and taken notice, technical innovation ain't standing still!
We have already had threads (with videos) about remote-controlled helicopters and volkswagens being controlled by iPhones.
How hard is it to visualize walking into your (home) office with something like an iPhone or iPad, and having it automatically become the controls for a supercomputer with wall-sized displays -- all wirelessly connected?
I do extremely complex technical graphics and cartography -- and I do so using the multi-touch trackpad on my MBP (no mouse or touchscreen). Where was multitouch first put into common use? -- on the iPhone...
Over a decade ago, I saw a visionary video on an "office of the future" concept, where the user just pointed at (and talked to) a wall-sized display to get things done. (The secret was a ring on his finger -- containing a low-powered laser "pointer"...)
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CHALLENGE: Post something here you would like to do with the future's mobile device; I'll bet there are visionary conservatives here who can see a way to "git 'er done"...
(Why does it take a 72-year old geezer to ask these things?)
>>>...SKYPE to communicate with my Euro and Far East partners, etc.
You can Skype on several Verizon cell phones...
If google comes out with a product as reliable, stable, easy to use, attractive, and integrated,... then includes the free software as good as that which comes with the Macs, I would give it a look.
But not if I have to put up with Microsoft junk on it. Btdt, and never again!
Too bad they both can't lose.
LLS
11% of MS isn’t nil, esp. when (A) it’s the next biggest OS, and (B) unlike MS, Apple owns the entire hardware market corresponding to that OS.
Looking another way: Apple’s 2009 revenue was $36B, vs. MS’s $58B. Pretty good showing for a “niche”.
Gotta, ya know, be careful comparing Apples to lemons.
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