Posted on 03/06/2012 1:48:40 PM PST by Hojczyk
Amid all the hullabaloo surrounding the new iPad launch tomorrow, one company, which claims to be channeling Steve Jobs' spirit, declares that the iPad 3 (or HD) will kill the PC, thanks to one new ingredient.
This video fell into my in-box, as if from the skies. It purports to show the iPad 3 with an indispensable component--a standalone keyboard that attaches neatly to the machine.
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And anyhow... maybe you’d want to pull a complex graphics file onto the tablet in spite of not being able to view or edit it on the tablet, so you could then pull it off onto another PC elsewhere.
How much of that is because desktops are easily upgradable and last longer. Finally talked the wife into ditching her machine for a new one after 8 years, and I’d owned that one for 3 years before that. It had been upgraded a few times. My current machine is 5 years old, 2 waves of upgrades, not planning on replacing any time soon.
All tablets and smartphones do that already. Android devices appear as USB mass storage devices, and iThings require a sync application (iTunes.) There is nothing new that you'd need to do to achieve what you want. It was this way even before tablets.
Part of the decline is definitely that the PC is a mature market, so fewer new people to sell to, and the tablet is a new market. But I wouldn’t discount a shift in the way people are using computers - much more time on mobile phones and tablet, and less on desktops. Also, lighter cheaper notebooks are much better daily use alternatives to desktops than they used to be. I’d love to see how much traffic here at free republic is now from mobile or tablet devices.
You might want the look-and-feel as seen on the PC to mimic the tablet’s own.
That capability already exists. You can use your I phone as a mouse to operate a computer feeding Boxee into your TV
Actually there several aps that will do it.
I find a wireless clicker better however.
Only Red Badger and Linear caught on that the author is poking fun at a knock-off Chingrish-language website that is almost as funny as "Somebody set us up the bomb!" And is hyping a circular virtual keyboard abortion of an idea called, "Magic Slide Wheel"...
Hojczyk, thanks for a good laugh at all the oh-so-serious, humorless ADS drones! LOL!!!
To Paraphrase Red Badger:
“Wow, that’s much more magical and ground-breaking than when Asus did it last year. A true game changer.”
Saw a couple of days ago an Asus concept, of a smartphone sized device also serving as the PC, and with optional larger keyboard and monitor devices.
Seems like PCs of sufficient power can fit in a smartphone size, and handle most of the processing people need. Storage in the cloud.
Somebody will need to invent an inflatable (or foldout) mouse for me, in order to miniturize everything. Gotta have my mouse.
Fer later
I think that may be because desktops work pretty well and last a long time. Tablets are new, and are mostly first time buyers.
Spreadsheets work perfectly fine on an iPad. You can get browser apps for flash if you have to have it. I don’t miss flash one bit on mine though. iPad hasn’t completed replaced my laptop, but it makes it much easier to do most things in places I couldn’t before.
The iPad finally does what a laptop has done all along...
Truly innovative...
(Color me underwhelmed...)
14-15 inches? What is that, your wrist watch?
Dual 27" widescreen monitors for me. :)
While my current build of Android on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a good working Adobe flash player, it may be the end of the road. The Adobe support is going away. They have conceded that HTML5 is good enough. The player that services Firefox on the PC is at end of life. I don't have a good flash player on my 64-bit Chrome or Firefox browser in Fedora 16. About time to put that technology away.
Having used an iPad with a keyboard, I can tell you it’s not all it’s cracked-up to be.
Me and Mrs. FD have ASUS Netbooks (Eee) we use as appliances — watch movies and surf while we fly, check the internet when watching TV from the bed, do some basic computer stuff, documents, email, etc. etc. etc. We bought them 3 years ago when netbooks were popular and had gotten cheap — a few hundred bucks and keeps on giving (I think the SH SD is the biggest feature — 6 movies or so per card).
I can’t see how it can be beaten (even by my RAZR MAXX). It does a great job, does everything I want, doesn’t need a case to stand up and was pretty inexpensive. It is about the same size as a tablet so I don’t see what a tablet offers except maybe the affectation of using it with one hand.
iPad 3 or 4 or 5 — meh.
Now *THIS* is an idea who's time has come!
I always laugh when I see posts like this. Very few companies are going to convert their enterprise systems to a slower, less sophisticated IPAD 3 based “system”. It’ silly.
I have an IPAD 2, I have a desktop. For productivity and tools there is no comparison—PC wins.
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