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> The entire world is now communicating by two OSs only..android and iOS. That's silly and reductionist. The world uses those OSs, but not only those. Almost e

> The entire world is now communicating by two OSs only..android and iOS. That's silly and reductionist. The world uses those OSs, but not only those. Almost every person that sits at a desk for work also uses something else. Every student in the US is expected to a use a computer with a keyboard for writing papers. I'd they don't have their own computer to do this, they are provided access to one.

lukifer 7y ago
A significant portion of the computing for iOS/Android is also powered by offloaded cloud computing, which run a vastly more diverse array of OS environments (though to what extent the myriad varieties of Linux distros are diverse from one another is semantic/subjective).
zeta0134 7y ago
When I was at college a decade* ago, there were quite a few student carrying around an iPad with a keyboard cover, and doing all of their schoolwork on that. Heck, I understood the draw the moment I did the same with the (doomed, but then-novel) Surface RT. That thing was lightweight and lasted all day without needing to worry about finding an outlet, which is a big deal when you're running to a different lecture hall every couple of hours. For some disciplines, especially anything involving CAD, I think desktop computer is still necessary. That said, I think you'd be surprised just how much of a typical college education can be done on nothing more than a basic tablet and a handful of productivity apps. * (...wow, it really was a decade. How the time flies.)
- smichel17 7y ago
  > I think you'd be surprised just how much of a typical college education can be done on nothing more than a basic tablet and a handful of productivity apps. I think upon reflection this is less surprising than you might initially find it. After all, college predates computers.

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> The entire world is now communicating by two OSs only..android and iOS. That's silly and reductionist. The world uses those OSs, but not only those. Almost e

by kbenson 7y ago

lukifer 7y ago
A significant portion of the computing for iOS/Android is also powered by offloaded cloud computing, which run a vastly more diverse array of OS environments (though to what extent the myriad varieties of Linux distros are diverse from one another is semantic/subjective).
zeta0134 7y ago
When I was at college a decade* ago, there were quite a few student carrying around an iPad with a keyboard cover, and doing all of their schoolwork on that. Heck, I understood the draw the moment I did the same with the (doomed, but then-novel) Surface RT. That thing was lightweight and lasted all day without needing to worry about finding an outlet, which is a big deal when you're running to a different lecture hall every couple of hours. For some disciplines, especially anything involving CAD, I think desktop computer is still necessary. That said, I think you'd be surprised just how much of a typical college education can be done on nothing more than a basic tablet and a handful of productivity apps. * (...wow, it really was a decade. How the time flies.)
- smichel17 7y ago
  > I think you'd be surprised just how much of a typical college education can be done on nothing more than a basic tablet and a handful of productivity apps. I think upon reflection this is less surprising than you might initially find it. After all, college predates computers.