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Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Re: Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Post by sologoub »

Most work can now be done on an iPad Pro without much compromise (highlighting stuff is still annoying, but oh well). With a little creativity, even decent amount of coding can be done.

Note that with the iPad, Apple is doing everything they can to hamstring the ability to code or replace the Mac.

Now expand your field of vision to Surface and Pixel Slate, and now you have two fully featured computing devices that act like a tablet, but readily convert to full on productivity machines complete with nice keyboards and pointing devices. Both support external monitors (why on earth can I not use airplay like this?!).

This hasn’t caught on yet, but for the average office user, and event many developers, these tablets with external keyboards provide more than enough computing power to get all of their work done.

For now I’m staying with my iPad, but Google has really made that choice a lot more difficult with the Pixel Slate. Had I been less bought into the Apple ecosystem, I’d be ordering it immediately.

EDIT: Forgot to mention eGPUs - if I could run a Thunderbolt3 eGPU on either Surface or Pixel Slate, probably would have switched by now.

Re: Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Post by Rebelgecko »

onion2k wrote: post #25
sosborn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computers are pretty useful for communicating.

What form of comms is better on a computer than it is on a smartphone? I can't think of anything.

As mentioned in the article, screenshots

Re: Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Post by awad »

astrodust wrote: post #23
jumelles wrote: post #9

People have run companies without computers for centuries !

People have run billion dollar tech startups without computers for centuries? Tell me more, please.

Given that he's the CEO of two reasonably large companies, I'm assuming that most of his non-private thinking time is spent in meetings, giving some form of presentation, and in email, there's no inherent need for a desktop computer which I believe is the intent of the article if you could call it that.

Re: Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Post by est »

Chinmayh wrote: post #27
owens99 wrote: post #19

The most interesting thing about being in China is seeing how 99% of merchants power their business with a Wechat/Alipay QR code printed on a piece of paper. Not sure how Square missed that.

QR codes have been available for a while. Square helped do payments through credit cards. At that time payment via QR codes was cumbersome, and not adopted. But I think it depends more on the consumers and local economy. US was anyway using credit cards a lot. Asia preferred cash, for smaller transactions.

You can pay credit cards with QA codes. You just don't need the POS device.

Re: Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Post by rajeshpant »

owens99 wrote: post #19

The most interesting thing about being in China is seeing how 99% of merchants power their business with a Wechat/Alipay QR code printed on a piece of paper. Not sure how Square missed that.

I think US as a whole is behind using QR codes for payments in general. One big reason is banks. The credit card culture of US made it almost impossible for new technologies to come and break the ground. Till this day there are banks who issue credit cards without chip and people prefer to use it.

Re: Jack Dorsey runs two multibillion-dollar companies without using a computer

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Post by atomicnumber1 »

sologoub wrote: post #31

Most work can now be done on an iPad Pro without much compromise (highlighting stuff is still annoying, but oh well). With a little creativity, even decent amount of coding can be done. Note that with the iPad, Apple is doing everything they can to hamstring the ability to code or replace the Mac. Now expand your field of vision to Surface and Pixel Slate, and now you have two fully featured computing devices that ac…

especially since it can run linux apps. But, their ui was pretty laggy in the recent demos. You can't beat iOS in UI smoothness.

Edit: grammar

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