rednukleus

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by rednukleus 13y ago
Yes, the iPhone (and Android devices) are replacing Blackberries. Not desktop computers. If convergence devices show up then they will replace phones. The ones that get chosen will be the ones that make the best computers, not the ones that
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by rednukleus 13y ago
More than they would save by going to one of their competitors? By the time convergence devices arrive, Google or Microsoft will almost certainly have the most cost effective solution for most businesses.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Again, that may be important work but it is all very basic work that can easily be done with any mid-range phone or tablet. Historically there may have been genuine reasons to pick the Apple product, but as time goes by there is less and le
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by rednukleus 13y ago
That has not been my experience with office workers. They often work with one maximized app, but they often work with more than one document at a time. For admin teams in particular they often have a small chat client open either for work r
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by rednukleus 13y ago
iPhones aren't being used for anything more than trivial tasks, they are used for phone calls, reading email and light web browsing. Any smartphone can do that, and if we see convergence then probably all the new converged devices will
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Firstly, iOS as it stands is very very poor compared with a desktop OS for office work. At an absolute minimum people need to be able to have two documents up on screen at once, maybe one spreadsheet and one PowerPoint doc. Secondly, im wil
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Not as desktop replacements they don't. iOS devices are fine for when the user has very simple needs like filling in a form or reading a pdf, but real office work is a completely different story. A desktop Windows computer is faster, c
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> I think if we're painting with really broad brushes, in the end companies care about ease of use. The cost of people is far greater than equipment. Sounds like you have never worked in an enterprise. Ease of use for the staff is d
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by rednukleus 13y ago
In the enterprise people care about price. A lot. They might be happy to buy a few iPhones for management, but a wide scale iOS deployment as a desktop replacement to everyone in the company would be crazy, in the same way that very few com
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Nobody has done it fully yet, including Apple. But again, Cringely doesn't give a single reason why Apple would succeed in this space over Google or Microsoft, or something like Ubuntu. Enterprise is probably going to want to stick to
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by rednukleus 13y ago
So Apple's plan is to do what Ubuntu and Windows are already heading in the direction of? Except when Apple do it is new and revolutionary. Why would any enterprise IT department choose the iOS device, which is going to be more expensi
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Apparently I don't want to choose my own keyboard, even though I hate the iOS keyboard.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Yeah, but that's not actually true. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/07/26/samsung-dethrones-app... . The supposed "failure" Samsung seem to be doing pretty well.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
By "Apple's competition", I assume he is referring to Android. Considering that Android has 80+% of the market, and Samsung is the worlds largest seller of smart phones, its difficult to justify saying that they have "sq
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Do you work for Apple, or are you an iOS only developer, or something? Throughout this thread, your gushing praise of everything Apple and disparaging remarks about literally everything every other company does is so over the top, even by H
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I think Gruber is usually either wrong, or right for the wrong reasons. His articles read like he is constructing a narrative to fit a particular conclusion and world view. The people that I know in advertising/marketing all know that
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by rednukleus 13y ago
They promote the idea that they can do no wrong, and that everything they do is carefully thought out perfection (eg. screen sizes)
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I think you are confusing "being influential" with "being in total control of the industry"
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Sure, if you define it narrowly enough, then you can call almost every large company "in total control" of the niche in which they operate.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I wouldn't describe any of those companies as "in total control of their industry" I would call them nice high end niche products.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
> Apple remains in total control of the industry. This is a nice phone, but I'm sorry - if you think Apple "remains in total control of the industry" with sub 20% marketshare and shrinking you are delusional. Whatever you
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by rednukleus 13y ago
15" 4:3 monitors were standard before year 2000. You have to go back to probably the early 90s before standard monitors had less real estate than a 15" widescreen. Of course resolutions and panel quality have increased since then,
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by rednukleus 13y ago
This is why I prefer replaceable batteries. Ultrabooks look nice, but ultraportables are more practical in my opinion.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Ahhh, there's the elitist attitude we all know and love. As I said, I can see why a developer targeting rich Americans would want to develop for iOS (for now), but the fact remains that it would be a catastrophe if iOS were to gain any
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Apple has a rule that disallows apps from the app store if they "duplicate the functionality of one of apple's own apps". Alternative browsers for instance are effectively banned, you can only skin safari. There have been ple
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by rednukleus 13y ago
I know, right? Things would be so much better if the dominant OS was a closed platform, and only ran on hardware made by the same company and only ran apps purchased though a tightly controlled store run by the same company. Of course then
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by rednukleus 13y ago
So put linux on there. Then again, if you are so bad with computers that you are "paralysed by the possibility of nagware" then maybe you should be on ChromeOS or something.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
He wasn't saying that their online services aren't big or aren't profitable, he was saying that they aren't very good. And I would have to agree with him on that. I don't think I've ever heard anyone argue that
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by rednukleus 13y ago
Its a shame that they put such a ridiculous linkbait title on an otherwise good article.
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by rednukleus 13y ago
And just to extend that point - people can upgrade to an SSD or a new monitor without buying a whole new PC (unless they have an ultrabook or all-in-one, and they are relatively new categories). Its not like the old days where you needed to

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