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| 'Tablets are changing the tech you use' |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 11:26:20 |
| "The rise of the tablet has heralded changes big and small across the tech ecosystem, from a booming market for cloud storage to the fall of Flash. If the computing industry was a stagnant pond in late 2009, the introduction of tablets a few months later was less akin to a pebble flicked from the shore and more like a boulder hurled from 10 feet up. The ripples have been widespread and lasting." Simple question: if an ordinary user used her laptop to check Facebook, the news, and read a few blogs, and now uses a tablet to do the exact same thing - how much has really changed? Are any of the things mentioned in this article - the rise of HTML5, streaming video, and internet storage - really the result of tablets? |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 11:36:39 |
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> Simple question: if an ordinary user used her laptop to check Facebook, the news, and read a few blogs, and now uses a tablet to do the exact same thing - how much has really changed? Are any of the things mentioned in this article - the rise of HTML5, streaming video, and internet storage - really the result of tablets? I think tablets have helped, but also mobile phones. Plus people keep moving between devices during the day, from desktop to tablet to phone and back. This makes it much easier to show people the benefits of cloud storage and convince them to use it. |
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| RE: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Neolander on 2012-09-10 12:10:28 |
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I think that the way many smartphone and tablet OSs prevent users to do what they want with locally stored content also helped. Lots of people around me, as an example, seem to use Dropbox as a replacement for proper file management on iOS. |
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| RE: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-09-10 12:12:05 |
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> Plus people keep moving between devices during the day, from desktop to tablet to phone and back. This makes it much easier to show people the benefits of cloud storage and convince them to use it. This was already the case anyway with laptops, desktops, work, home, etc. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 12:15:41 |
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Yes, but I think to a lesser amount. Now we use your mobile phones wherever we are. It's hard to walk the streets or sit in a public place without people staring at their mobile phone. Also I think people did work at work and private stuff at home. Now lots of people do private stuff at work and work after hours from home. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 12:17:05 |
| I do that too, but I also do it for files I only use on my desktops. In fact I use Dropbox on iOS more to access these files to look stuff up, not to edit them. |
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| RE[3]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By smashIt on 2012-09-10 12:38:06 |
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> It's hard to walk the streets or sit in a public place without people staring at their mobile phone. and before the smart-phones it was hard to walk the streets or sit in a public place without people typing SMS' on their dumb-phones |
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| Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 15:12:23 |
| I think the most amazing thing about tablets is how fast they became part of our every day lives. People quickly got one, business quickly adopted them and they show up on television programs. |
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| RE: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By moondevil on 2012-09-10 15:53:30 |
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> This makes it much easier to show people the benefits of cloud storage and convince them to use it. I always have to laugh when I see people complaining about not being able to access their precious files due to connectivity issues. |
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| RE[2]: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-10 15:56:48 |
| They just need to hold their phone differently. |
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| RE: Comment by MOS6510 |
| By zima on 2012-09-10 16:20:45 |
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Did they, fast? Tablets were around for more than two decades (GRiDPad is a 1989 thing; and then the first IBM Thinkpad was a tablet, no keyboard) - it's only the latest wave that gained wide acceptance... Alternatively, WRT "and they show up on television programs" - yeah, I remember them being quite prominent in Stargate Atlantis, almost a decade ago now. And in Star Trek, among others, before that (even those probably did influence public acceptance) |
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