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Where are they going to get the money it would take to do that with? Not in this depression.
LLS
Computers are being low cost appliances. This is the battleground and where the war will be fought. As for who will will remains to be seen.
Do you work for Apple? I’ve always wondered because you constantly post pro-Apple articles.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Until they’ve got something that will go head-to-head with Exchange, they’re not going to convince a lot of corporations to forklift their MS systems for Apples.
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?)
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!