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Apparently this is supposed to illustrate the benefits of mobile, keyboard less devices:
37 Percent of PC Users Migrate Activities to Mobile Devices, According to The NPD Group – NPD.com[^]
I read this as illustrating that a lot of people are spending a significant part of their days on Facebook, and if they are browsing from a tablet, or phone, I kind of doubt that this has much to do with work …
Perhaps it’s just me, but I still find it hard to imagine that people do their work on tablets and smartphones – so is there anybody here that uses tablets or smartphones to actually do anything?
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Nope! Smart devices are for doing not-so-smart things.
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I have a friend that is after me because I do not have a smart phone. I look at the cost of data plans and figure I can do better things with that money. Of course there are times that it would be nice, but that would likely also mean that I would have to be able to find my reading glasses, and that seems problomatic. I hate having to wear glasses. Sucks getting old.
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I actually got mine to show pictures of my son when he was born. Then I realized that checking my email, browsing the web, and using the GPS map were extremely useful. If you've lived without it, then you're doing alright.
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I have to admit they are useful, and for all the reasons you mention. However, the cost is for service is high. It is amazing that you cannot get somebody to spend $500 ons something that will last for years, but are not as hesitant to purchase a service at $50 per month.
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People are willing to pay $50 to be screwed serviced each month.
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Actually they pay a hell of a lot more. There are all the companies that are hitting consumers for monthly services, and then there are taxes. I really do not appreciate my good money being used for things I do not think neccessary. Some of this money is to overthrow foregin governments. I do not approve, so I figure I should not have to pay.
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Yep, at the marketing on 11thfloor, they use it to make coke rails on.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: Yep, at the marketing on 11thfloor, they use it to make coke rails on.
Not many would consider that real work, and don't you work in a 9 storey building?
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The last idea was a marketing campaign based on videos with people dancing on a cover of "Gangnam Style", so some specific stuff must have been involved in the process.
Espen Harlinn wrote: 9 storey building
Just went up and landed on the roof. Damn, where are these guys, then ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: Damn, where are these guys, then ?
Oh, they went where the rails took them ...
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Clifford Nelson wrote:
Maybe in heaven?
When you try walking on air, it may feel like that for a short while - who knows what happens afterwards ...
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True. The dead may dream, but they are not talking.
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_beauw_ wrote:
I've heard people using Ruby on Rails are remarkably productive.
Yeah, right - and if you paint this[^] nicely, some will mistake it for a real house ...
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I don't. I try to do as litle on my phone as possible.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I try to do as litle on my phone as possible.
I happen to use it mostly as a phone, and sometimes I use the browser when I'm not at work ...
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A lot of people do not need a full-on PC or laptop.
We are a minority that need a full functioning PC with multiple monitors.
The large majority only do data entry/validation for their work and a table/smartphone is good enough.
Nihil obstat
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Maximilien wrote: The large majority
Which majority is that?
Most people are not carpenters, electricans, cooks, warehoude workers, etc. In our part of the world, most people shuffle papers, write reports, etc. the stuff that's called office work ...
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Those are the lucky people that have reasonably well paying jobs. There are all the people that wait tables, bus boys, dish washers, sit around the airport with TSA on their uniforms, on in their car with "Police" on the outside, do deliveries, sales clerks... And of course the unemployed (I mean all unemployed, not just the few official unemployed, retired... Of course they do not get paid much, so the cell companies are taking a good chunk of thier paycheck to provide service for that smart device.
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Clifford Nelson wrote: Those are the lucky people that have reasonably well paying jobs.
Perhaps ...
Clifford Nelson wrote: There are all the people that wait tables, bus boys, dish washers, sit around the airport with TSA on their uniforms, on in their car with "Police" on the outside, do deliveries, sales clerks...
Yes, you're right, that would also be occupations that could benefit from using a tablet based solution at work ...
Clifford Nelson wrote: cell companies are taking a good chunk of thier paycheck to provide service for
that smart device.
This will get you on the Internet Ubislate 7ci[^]
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These people have little need to have a general purpose computer as part of their jobs, but the internet is fairly important for everybody in their personal life for email, and to get information. It use to be that these people often had no access to an office phone, so were basically disconnected. For them cell phones have been great, especially if they have a job where they are mostly idle. Smart phones (and if they have space, a tablet), of course, give them even more connectivity for things like email. I do dancing, and some of the dj's use tablets, which works perfectly for that application also.
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Where is this 'large majority' hiding away? And what is that majority of work which doesn't require a computer, but can be done on a tablet or mobile phone?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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