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Why can't the future be something that augments instead of supplants?
By definition?
And people definitely don't go and watch plays and operas live anymore now that they can do so in their living room with a TV.
You need a better dictionary..
Hmm, I think he is possibly incorrect here. A lot of people do multi task; but my parents close every application when they start a new one. If they are sending emails they close Word - and vice versa.
My gran did this, my brother used to do this till a few years ago, most of the people on my uni course (electrical engineering) who were not computery people tended to do this, all my friends generally do this as well.
Indeed the only thing I have seen people traditionally leave on is music (which can be done on the iPad) and chat (which currently cannot).
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By definition?
Yes, because there totally aren't any sailboats around now that steamboats and motorboats got invented. And people definitely don't go and watch plays and operas live anymore now that they can do so in their living room with a TV. You need a better dictionary..
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Hey Tony - Pity that seemingly everyone in Seattle is staying in tonight. Crappy weather... Two things: 1. You've probably forgotten more about this sort of data than I'll ever know, but I look around at folks on laptops in cafes and see nothing but Facebook or Gmail on Netbooks. I think we, as a class of users, are the exception: most people on computers spend the bulk of their time consuming information instead of…
Facebook and Gmail both have production and consumption. A device that excels at consumption and is inadequate for production will not serve as a replacement for many people. It sounds like the iPad is adequate for at least some limited typing, but it remains to be seen whether it's adequate for what most users do. The bigger critique, though, is multi-tasking. I like to be able to consume music and webpages at the s…
The problem has never been that the iPhone and iPad can't support multi-tasking, it's that Apple has only permitted some of its own apps to multi-task.
Would it be rude to say that I don't care what anyone has to say about the iPad after only a single day of use? It's not a new laptop, it's a new mobile device entirely . It'll take more than one day to really get the iPad, for better or for worse.
I'm not quite sure why all these iPad articles are framed with the assumption you're going to use the iPad instead of something else. I've been working on a project in Logic most of the night on my Mac with the iPad sitting on my desk for browsing, music, and video. It's a fantastic setup. Nice break from keyboard & mousing. The display is stunning and multi-touch web browsing on this size screen is such a natural ex…
They're framed with that assumption because of the other articles that call it "the future of computing". If something's the future of computing, it's supposed to supplant the present of computing, right?
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Yes, because there totally aren't any sailboats around now that steamboats and motorboats got invented. And people definitely don't go and watch plays and operas live anymore now that they can do so in their living room with a TV. You need a better dictionary..
Sailboats are luxury items, dude. People aren't forced to use sailboats. In fact, instead of 100% of ships being sailboats, I'd gander only 5% or less are sailboats.
Anyway, I was merely illustrating that "the future of" does not mean "the sole replacement of".
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Sailboats are luxury items, dude. People aren't forced to use sailboats. In fact, instead of 100% of ships being sailboats, I'd gander only 5% or less are sailboats.
5% of the sailboat market is pretty significant - as is 5% of the computer market. In fact, iirc, Apple has been making solid profits from round about 5% of the laptop market. Anyway, I was merely illustrating that "the future of" does not mean "the sole replacement of".
Motor/Steam boats are now used where Sailboats were used, 100% of the time.
TV/Movies have replaced Opera/Theater for mainstream entertainment.
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They're framed with that assumption because of the other articles that call it "the future of computing". If something's the future of computing, it's supposed to supplant the present of computing, right?
Why can't the future be something that augments instead of supplants?