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I was absolutely amazed when this no-home-PC thing started catching on, because I just can't image, say, booking a flight on a smartphone. But there is a large

I was absolutely amazed when this no-home-PC thing started catching on, because I just can't image, say, booking a flight on a smartphone. But there is a large cohort that a phone is good enough. We are the minority. I will always have a desktop at home.

sotojuan 10y ago
> booking a flight on a smartphone Hipmunk?
- nommm-nommm 10y ago
  Well for me part of booking a flight is choosing which airport to leave from. The last 4 flights i took left from 4 different airports. There's also choosing a day to leave and come back which requires a few searches. I like to open several tabs and flip back and forth quickly to compare flights. I like having a screen where I can see more than a couple flights at a time. Having a keyboard and mouse makes all the difference in the world too.
TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago
The company I work for recently (~3 months ago) offered to send our payslips via email, I think I'm the only person on the workshop floor who has this, everyone else still receives theirs as paper copy. Using a smartphone to do anything other than send short messages and read the web frustrates me to buggery, but for those people who find using a computer frustrating or tedious anyway a smartphone mustn't be much different or even probably a better user experience.
- vacri 10y ago
  "to buggery" may not translate so well outside the antipodes :)
  - teh_klev 10y ago
    Works perfectly fine here in the UK
- dzhiurgis 10y ago
  Funny thing about email. Chatted with some 18year old recently. She said she'd get pissed of if she had to check her email now. She probably wouldn't know how. It's all social media/chat apps for them now.
cstejerean 10y ago
I have a laptop for programming but otherwise I do pretty much everything else either on my phone or occasionally my iPad. The phone has the advantage of always being in my pocket so as soon as I think of something I can take out my phone and do it, without having to wait to get back to my laptop. Booking flights is easy, I use Kayak.
- khedoros 10y ago
  I have a phone for when I don't have any option but to do something when I'm out, and to get notifications of e-mail (plus sms, voice, etc). I love that it's possible to use it for so many things, but I hate actually doing anything meaningful on it. Even on something like a 10" tablet, I feel like I'm limited by the small size and the input options. I usually pull the phone out of my pocket, think about doing something with it, make the decision that whatever needs done can wait, and put it away.

sotojuan 10y ago

> booking a flight on a smartphone Hipmunk?

nommm-nommm 10y ago
Well for me part of booking a flight is choosing which airport to leave from. The last 4 flights i took left from 4 different airports. There's also choosing a day to leave and come back which requires a few searches. I like to open several tabs and flip back and forth quickly to compare flights. I like having a screen where I can see more than a couple flights at a time. Having a keyboard and mouse makes all the difference in the world too.

TheSpiceIsLife 10y ago

The company I work for recently (~3 months ago) offered to send our payslips via email, I think I'm the only person on the workshop floor who has this, everyone else still receives theirs as paper copy. Using a smartphone to do anything other than send short messages and read the web frustrates me to buggery, but for those people who find using a computer frustrating or tedious anyway a smartphone mustn't be much different or even probably a better user experience.

vacri 10y ago
"to buggery" may not translate so well outside the antipodes :)
- teh_klev 10y ago
  Works perfectly fine here in the UK
dzhiurgis 10y ago
Funny thing about email. Chatted with some 18year old recently. She said she'd get pissed of if she had to check her email now. She probably wouldn't know how. It's all social media/chat apps for them now.

cstejerean 10y ago

I have a laptop for programming but otherwise I do pretty much everything else either on my phone or occasionally my iPad. The phone has the advantage of always being in my pocket so as soon as I think of something I can take out my phone and do it, without having to wait to get back to my laptop. Booking flights is easy, I use Kayak.

khedoros 10y ago
I have a phone for when I don't have any option but to do something when I'm out, and to get notifications of e-mail (plus sms, voice, etc). I love that it's possible to use it for so many things, but I hate actually doing anything meaningful on it. Even on something like a 10" tablet, I feel like I'm limited by the small size and the input options. I usually pull the phone out of my pocket, think about doing something with it, make the decision that whatever needs done can wait, and put it away.