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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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I can already imagine the inspiration videos on instatwitube that will be published quoting this. "You don't even need a computer to get started. Jack Dorsey, CEO of two multi-billion companies, doesn't even own a computer, yet he is successful."

Your sentiments are close to my heart. The amount of "inspiration" peddled on youtube, linkedin, and other sites is nauseating.

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

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For "consuming" yes, not for "producing"

That's pretty much the same nowadays, you look & reply to emails, you browse the web, you open company documents, you have the same company chat as on a pc... From a company point of view it's essentially the same thing, that's why you have company phones.

That 30-page company document you opened on your phone, was it written on a phone?

"Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.

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

#24

A smartphone is a computer.

I'm increasingly only using my phone for everything, with a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard for coding or typing. My PC is quickly becoming just a gaming console and will probably soon be put into a car sim style setup then my phone will be my only computer for everything else. Nothing fancy phone wise, S7 Edge. It can take USB sticks, wireless keyboard and mouse, and almost everything I do is just in Firefox or Dropbo…

Surely you can't be reading all that code on such a small screen? I assume you must be hooking it up to an HDMI monitor as well?

(But if so, I'm with you. I was using a Samsung DeX with my S8 recently while my laptop was broken, and it's incredible how much it can do. I had my Focusrite 2i2 USB audio connecting my S8 to my studio monitors, and even that worked.)

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

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CEOing is about making business decisions, not inventing and creating stuff, so why would you need a computer.

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.

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

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's pretty much the same nowadays, you look & reply to emails, you browse the web, you open company documents, you have the same company chat as on a pc... From a company point of view it's essentially the same thing, that's why you have company phones.

That 30-page company document you opened on your phone, was it written on a phone? "Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.

I use Google Docs on my phone all the time. It works really well.

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

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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.

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

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post #25
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.

For me (and many others) anything that involves writing more than a few words of text. YMMV.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm increasingly only using my phone for everything, with a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard for coding or typing. My PC is quickly becoming just a gaming console and will probably soon be put into a car sim style setup then my phone will be my only computer for everything else. Nothing fancy phone wise, S7 Edge. It can take USB sticks, wireless keyboard and mouse, and almost everything I do is just in Firefox or Dropbo…

Surely you can't be reading all that code on such a small screen? I assume you must be hooking it up to an HDMI monitor as well? (But if so, I'm with you. I was using a Samsung DeX with my S8 recently while my laptop was broken, and it's incredible how much it can do. I had my Focusrite 2i2 USB audio connecting my S8 to my studio monitors, and even that worked.)

I've got DeX too, and I agree, it's very nice. Linux on Galaxy will probably take this even further.

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

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's pretty much the same nowadays, you look & reply to emails, you browse the web, you open company documents, you have the same company chat as on a pc... From a company point of view it's essentially the same thing, that's why you have company phones.

That 30-page company document you opened on your phone, was it written on a phone? "Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.

> "Producing" is a lot more than writing 15 line emails.

Depends of your job really, there's a lot of people for which writing emails & replying to people is the main part of their job.

I don't suggest to do 3D modeling or writing a 100 pages document on a phone but there's a lot of middle ground between the two.

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