Posted on 02/01/2011 12:12:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Since Jobs replaced himself with a sodomite,
don’t think I’ll be sending money apple’s way anytime soon.
Watch for the new iFag coming your way next year.
Got a link ?
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A tablet will not replace my desktop computer(s), but it will replace my laptop.
I wanted a device to take to meetings. I wanted to be able to record at least the audio. I wanted to be able to have the dozen, if not hundreds, of catalogs that support my sales all on one device, electronically. I wanted to be able to share this information with others in the meeting.
A small laptop seemed to be the solution, but battery life was often an issue, requiring me to carry around the power brick and cord. Audio recording worked, sort of, but the built in microphones tended to be VERY directional, so I would have to set up an external microphone, which looked stupid and was one more thing to carry. As for the catalogs, while I could pull them up on the screen, sharing meant turning the laptop, now tethered by a power cord and microphone, towards the customer.
The iPad is perfect for my uses. The longer battery life means no power cord in the field. It seems to have a much more omnidirectional microphone that picks up conversations just fine. I am able to access all the catalogs I need really fast with a wi-fi connection and still pretty fast when running on the cellular network. It is very cool to be sitting in a meeting talking with a prospect who is telling you his needs and just about the time he has stopped speaking I have several possible solutions on screen that I can just hand him. It has changed the way we work with clients.
Do you trust a "gay" Rag ?
I think that is a very important observation. When Microsoft became dominant, hardware had become a cheap commodity, but operating systems were hard to come by. Today, the operating systems are much easier to come by. You're right. It's a very different ballgame this time around. No one operating system is going to dominate. Providers will have to compete on the total user experience and convenience provided by a device.
But you are wrong... Android is NOT 1st in "sales," not where it counts: the exchange of something of value for cash. Android is first in GIVING IT AWAY! Apple is 1st where it counts: at the bank with 51% of all cell phone sales profits!
53% of the market share is 53% of the market share no matter how much you shout.
http://new.lowendmac.com/ed/leeds/11al/other-side.html
[snip] Ubuntu is great. Rakarrack is great. That old PC, with a few tweaks and a few upcoming upgrades, will be really great.
What’s not so great? CRT monitors in a small space.
That’s where I had to get really creative. Since I don’t have a flatscreen to spare, at least for the moment, I had to come up with a really neat alternative. My choice: my iPad.
Yes, the PC is now a semi-headless server, controlled via my iPad with TeamViewer (my favorite remote access app for iOS, Mac, Windows, and Linux - and possibly Android too). Even when optimized for speed, it has a little bit of a lag, but it’s light on the CPU, and it does what I ask it to do. [unsnip]
They do have gaydar. They are the ones that out people. I would believe they don’t want to get sued for libel. Specially a guy that has a lot of money.
If you are not planning to preach the
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
gospel to him, what is your concern ?
There speaks a man who does not use it every day to be productive. I do. So do hundreds of thousands of others. You denigrate something you do not use, so you know not of what you speak. The cloud opens my iPad to terabytes of data that I DON'T HAVE TO CARRY WITH ME, or put at security risk. The ability to access my office files from anywhere makes me far more productive.
And your point is? Both OSX and iOS work just fine with Exchange... so why kill it?
Sure the cloud is awesome up until somebody’s internet connection gets hosed. Wonder how the cloud was doing for Egypt. Stop shouting.
One example from the articles: “After Cook was profiled as a “lifelong bachelor” and “intensely private” elsewhere, we wondered if he might be gay. We’ve since heard from two well-placed sources that this is indeed the case”
Rumor. Might be true, but it is interesting that all this gay talk is only relatively recent.
It gets more fun.
Two of your articles just quote the gawker article, which acknowledges he hasn’t come out as gay.
The best part: “Cook would be, by far, the most powerful openly gay executive in tech, trailed by Microsoft’s openly lesbian HR chief Lisa Brummel and by Megan Smith, the former PlanetOut CEO now working as Google’s vice president of new business development.”
Time for you to boycott Microsoft and Google.
Nielsen Q410 U.S. mobile OS market share: Apple iOS 28%, RIM BlackBerry 27%, Google Android 27%Tuesday, February 01, 2011 - 04:15 PM EST
"The competition between smartphone operating systems is a heated one. When it comes to the installed base, U.S. mobile consumers who already own smartphones, Apple's iOS leads with 28%, followed closely by RIM BlackBerry and Google's Android, each with 27%," Don Kellogg, Senior Manager, Telecom Practice Research and Insights, reports for The Nielsen Company.
You know this. Why do you try to prevent challenges to obviously flawed arguments?
I don’t use Google and I’ve never bought a windows product that wasn’t bundled to hardware I was buying.
I don’t know why YOU have such a beef with someone stating their own reasons as to why they won’t buy a product. I never said YOU had to change your buying habits.
It’s not desktops vs tablets. They augment each other.
The laptop was a compromise, cramming as much desktop into a portable box as possible - incuding what did not need to be portable.
The tablet makes portable the needs which must be portable, leaving the desktop to supply the non portable needs behind. I can take email, surfing, remote access, etc anywhere now, while leaving the giant screens, multiple cores, and terabytes of storage on the desk.
Just not a good idea to change your buying habits on unconfirmed rumor, especially when your alternatives suffer from the same problem, or one close to it.
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