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Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by tekalon »

falcolas wrote: post #64
spuz wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In order to argue the author's point you would also need to be carrying around a 5" phone. He is pointing out the trend of more people using their phones for what they used to use their tablets for. I'd be interested to know if you have a 5" phone and whether or not you think it replaces the features of your tablet in any way.

Speaking for myself, no, my smartphone does not replace my tablet. The amount of screen realestate lost when going from 11" to 5" is just too much. It makes reading hard (particularly with less than perfect eyesight), movies too small, and all of the real time communication that comes with a phone is vying for my attention all the time. Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'…

I can do that with google voice.

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by freehunter »

BlackDeath3 wrote: post #25
0xdeadbeefbabe wrote: post #6

My love affair with touch screens is over. What a coincidence.

I have to agree with that. We pretty much all grew up before touchscreens were widely available as they are now, and as such I think the allure of them was in their novelty. The more I use touchscreens, the more I realize how inefficient and inconsistent they tend to be (at least, the ones I've used).

I feel the opposite. Whenever I'm using a computer without a touch screen and the screen is close enough to touch (or in a convenient location to touch), I have to fight instinct to touch the screen. Sometimes it's just easier (for me at least) to jab your finger at the thing you want to click on than it is to move the mouse to it.

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by jarjoura »

What does this have to do with desktops?

This article is saying that as people apparently migrate to larger phones they will then find tablets unnecessary.

I think there is room in the world for people to have both a small one-hand useable phone coupled with a larger multipurpose tablet. There is also room for people to buy devices like the Sony 6" phablet that works both as a phone and a "tablet."

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by MetaCosm »

spuz wrote: post #54
dictum wrote: post #24

My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment. After a working day, I don't want to use a PC, and the tablet lets me use the web and other media comfortably, but I wouldn't try to actually use it for work beyond initially…

In order to argue the author's point you would also need to be carrying around a 5" phone. He is pointing out the trend of more people using their phones for what they used to use their tablets for. I'd be interested to know if you have a 5" phone and whether or not you think it replaces the features of your tablet in any way.

My Note II (and now Note III) completely killed my tablet use... or more properly put, replaced it. With the stylus and multitasking, feels more like a small tablet with phone capabilities.

My various tablets are now nearly permanently attached to my computers. I need them for writing / testing software, but that is mostly all they do these days, don't carry them around the house much, never carry them out of the house.

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by return0 »

dictum wrote: post #24

My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment. After a working day, I don't want to use a PC, and the tablet lets me use the web and other media comfortably, but I wouldn't try to actually use it for work beyond initially…

Am I the only one who uses it mostly in the toilet?

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by return0 »

bhauer wrote: post #65

Although I own three tablets, my love affair with the tablet as it exists today never really took off the same way it did for so many consumers. The primary reason is that I do not believe that tablets should be first-class computing devices. Tablets, and in my opinion, the entirety of what we today call "mobile," should be subservient to a general computing model of personal omnipresent applications [1]. Put more co…

That's a good point, and that's why the plain Kindle is more appealing to me. The fact that it syncs automaticall, and it's dumb (only good for one thing) makes it more useful.

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by BlackDeath3 »

freehunter wrote: post #82
BlackDeath3 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to agree with that. We pretty much all grew up before touchscreens were widely available as they are now, and as such I think the allure of them was in their novelty. The more I use touchscreens, the more I realize how inefficient and inconsistent they tend to be (at least, the ones I've used).

I feel the opposite. Whenever I'm using a computer without a touch screen and the screen is close enough to touch (or in a convenient location to touch), I have to fight instinct to touch the screen. Sometimes it's just easier (for me at least) to jab your finger at the thing you want to click on than it is to move the mouse to it.

I think it's really context-sensitive. Some things work best with a touchscreen, I suppose. I do know one thing - I'd probably rather beat myself to death with a tablet than try to program (or type anything at all, for that matter) on it.

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by [deleted] »

dmd wrote: post #79
falcolas wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speaking for myself, no, my smartphone does not replace my tablet. The amount of screen realestate lost when going from 11" to 5" is just too much. It makes reading hard (particularly with less than perfect eyesight), movies too small, and all of the real time communication that comes with a phone is vying for my attention all the time. Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'…

> Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'd drop my phone in a heartbeat... What's stopping you? I do this from Hangouts (which can make calls, at least in the US.)

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Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by dmd »

[deleted] wrote: post #88
dmd wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Now then, if I could make calls over a bluetooth headset connected to my iPad, I'd drop my phone in a heartbeat... What's stopping you? I do this from Hangouts (which can make calls, at least in the US.)

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I'm pretty sure android doesn't run on the iPad, which is what the person I was responding to said they use.

(That said, yes, you can do this on android, with skype and a skype-in number.)

Re: Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

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Post by rhizome »

NathanKP wrote: post #36
dictum wrote: post #24

My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment. After a working day, I don't want to use a PC, and the tablet lets me use the web and other media comfortably, but I wouldn't try to actually use it for work beyond initially…

This is exactly how I use my tablet too. I use my computer all day writing code, so when its time to relax with some Netflix, or an ebook I grab my tablet instead. Its perfect for laying on the couch or in bed. A phone definitely works in that case as well, but the tiny screen isn't as nice for reading and watching video. Not to mention by the end of the day my phone is usually mostly dead and its time to put it on t…

Since the era of zoomable text on phones appears to be over, tablets have a bright future.
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