Guys.....NFC? Enjoying the shares.
Duncan
On 09/20/2013 15:56, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't trying to imply that NFC is not useful...or even that
it won't be one day. But, its promise is not fulfilled on a large
scale yet as no one as made it indispensable to the masses. I have at
least two devices that support NFC (and I bought them in part because
of this feature), so I personally see the potential there. As far as I
can tell, NFC is not a compelling technology yet because too many
folks are getting along happily without it.
The same with the touch-ID. Fingerprint readers aren't new...and, no
one has shown them to be something most really want or need. It will
be interesting to see if Apple can incorporate it into their devices
in such a way to make it compelling. If they can, it will be yet
another example of "not invented here, but hey, we figured out how to
make it really work for folks". I'm not a believer.
On 9/20/2013 8:19 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
Well, I'd wildly disagree on NFC. I use NFC frequently and frankly,
it's one of the cooler phone technologies I've worked with. Using
NFC tags I: set my thermostats on the way out the door with a swipe;
auto-update calendar schedules, evernotes will auto-tag notes to NFC
tags which for those of us with 'eh' memory is damn slick.
On 2013-09-20 05:14, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
The unwashed masses will always be ignorant. Having a beef with them
will be counter productive.
Monikers help sell things. A retina screen is no big deal to us, but
to the unwashed masses it makes sure they get the high-resolution
screen without having to remember all of the details. And I do give
apple the credit for realizing that WE needed this in everything and
starting to bring it out. But they certainly didn't invent
high-resolution screens, but they are the main reason they are
ubiquitous on tablets. If the touch-ID thing pans out, they won't
(and shouldn't) get credit for a fingerprint reader but making is a
thing we can use and depend on, they should get credit for, if it
works, which remains to be seen. Still to this day no one has made
NFC into a useful product. So who invented that is not really so
important.
On 9/20/2013 5:02 AM, Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
My beef in general is with people who don't understand the technology
and believe the advertising that companies do.
And let's not forget that Apple is the master of masking the
underlying technology with a moniker that they call their own and
making people believe that they were the ones who either invented it
or are the first one to do it.
But as I mentioned it really doesn't make a big difference in the end
as long as the steady march of progress is being made but what really
bothers me is the uneducated people out there.
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 20, 2013, at 11:20 AM, "Anthony Q. Martin"
<amar...@charter.net> wrote:
So your beef is with fanboys. Nobody likes fanboys. :)
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On Sep 19, 2013, at 9:12 PM, Zulfiqar Naushad <z00...@gmail.com>
wrote:
What annoys me is when Apple fanboys see something and say apple
invented it. Good example is iCloud.
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