On 9 April 2013 17:54, veegee <veegee@veegee.org> wrote:
>
> From a business perspective, it's very smart. In general, sell garbage,
> and stupid people will buy garbage. The majority of the population of
> this planet is stupid, so it's an easy target. You'd be silly not to
> target them. Market it properly and you can make millions convincing all
> the kids in high school to buy your tablet or phone to browse Facebook
> because it's the coolest new thing.
>

This is a very extreme way to see this. People are not stupid. People are
consumers. Consumers who does not care about what hardware or software to
use to access to email or write an essay. People who want to turn the
device on which makes things immediately available, not waiting a minute to
boot up. People who does not want to fight against computer viruses,
spyware and exploits. People who does not want to reinstall their operating
system because it slows down after a while. People who does not want to
spend time to find the proper software googling them, download them from
random sites and let them make the system unstable as being able to do
unapproved modifications to it. And they do not want to spend money on
AntiVirus and System Cleaner because of the fundamental problems of today's
computing. They are smart because they know the existing approach was not
optimal for them, but for techies only.

That was the vision of Steve Jobs, he wanted to turn computing to consumer
devices as he recognised the frustration of users. He visioned a computer
that can be turned on and you are 100% sure it actually turns on and does
that in a split of a second -- just like a TV or a washing machine. And you
do not necessarily need a big screen desktop at home either to write
e-mails and access to your bank account. But this is already existing
technology, you can use AppleTV, a wireless screen sharing technology to
attach an iPad to your big screen.

These days are a revolution, the way we are doing computing is rapidly
changing. I believe that some day even office computers will be devices
like this. You do not want a device at your company that is exposed to
viruses and which is allowed by every single employees to install random
stuff on it, making them unstable and unmanageable. You need one that works
24/7 and runs the software needed by the company. Maybe we need bigger
screen for this and a keyboard for that though. Today you can buy Android
tablets with keyboard, looks like a laptop even though the screen is a
detachable tablet. Also you can attach a Bluetooth keyboard to iPad and
there are tons + 1 specific keyboards for iPad -- some makes iPad look like
a laptop.

Tamas


>
> >From a philosophical and conceptual perspective, it's absolutely
> terrible (as a desktop/laptop replacement).
>
> I agree with Gus - I, too, lost the little respect I had for Apple after
> Jobs died. If anything, at least the man had vision.
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