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> But PCs are still around. > > I’m not happy about this. He is not happy that everyone not switched from real computers to media-consumption gadgets where pr

by ungzd 9y ago

> But PCs are still around. > > I’m not happy about this. He is not happy that everyone not switched from real computers to media-consumption gadgets where programs are curated by central company? Where even content displayed in these programs must be censored using Victorian standards? Maybe we should replace internet with TV? You can watch news and talk shows on TV, and picture is better! Why use ancient Sumerian technology of text from 3000 BC, when you have 4K video with quadro sound? Disruptive!

astr 9y ago
> > But PCs are still around. > > I’m not happy about this. > He is not happy that everyone not switched from real computers to media-consumption gadgets where programs are curated by central company? A more charitable reading would be that he isn’t happy that more general computing hasn’t yet been effectively delivered on (what he sees as) a tablet’s convenient form factor.
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ashark 9y ago
> media-consumption gadgets How are people still repeating this? Better sensor suite, better (outward-facing!) camera, and better built-in ability to use it as a drawing surface than pretty much any laptop (certainly none combines all those things), an OS that's actually suitable for creative audio work and doesn't otherwise get in one's way all the damn time (Android, Windows, Linux), and the software to match. But it doesn't have a mouse and the keyboard's an add-on so it must just be for watching Youtube I guess.
- jbob2000 9y ago
  I need none of those things to play video games and develop software.
  - ashark 9y ago
    What does that have to do with whether tablets are more than media consumption devices?
- anotherproj 9y ago
  All of your examples are multimedia tasks: drawing, cameras, audio, etc. The guy writing the blog expresses his frustrations trying to: reply to emails, copy and paste stuff, light programming,and multitasking. The reason people still say it is a multimedia devices is because that is where it excels.

by ungzd 9y ago

astr 9y ago

> > But PCs are still around. > > I’m not happy about this. > He is not happy that everyone not switched from real computers to media-consumption gadgets where programs are curated by central company? A more charitable reading would be that he isn’t happy that more general computing hasn’t yet been effectively delivered on (what he sees as) a tablet’s convenient form factor.

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ashark 9y ago

> media-consumption gadgets How are people still repeating this? Better sensor suite, better (outward-facing!) camera, and better built-in ability to use it as a drawing surface than pretty much any laptop (certainly none combines all those things), an OS that's actually suitable for creative audio work and doesn't otherwise get in one's way all the damn time (Android, Windows, Linux), and the software to match. But it doesn't have a mouse and the keyboard's an add-on so it must just be for watching Youtube I guess.

jbob2000 9y ago
I need none of those things to play video games and develop software.
- ashark 9y ago
  What does that have to do with whether tablets are more than media consumption devices?
anotherproj 9y ago
All of your examples are multimedia tasks: drawing, cameras, audio, etc. The guy writing the blog expresses his frustrations trying to: reply to emails, copy and paste stuff, light programming,and multitasking. The reason people still say it is a multimedia devices is because that is where it excels.