On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Ken Dibble <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think the phenomenal growth of the desktop, year-over-year, is dead. >> I think a lot of adults, teens and kids who keyboard all day are going >> to use voice, gestures and touch to surf, watch cat videos, tweet, >> facebook (yes, it's been verbized), read ebooks, buy stuff on Amazon, >> etc. The era of desktop computers for home is going to dwindle. Gamers >> will still want souped-up boxes. A lot of travelling workers can use >> tablets. A lot of non-intensive data entry (checking off items on a >> list) are going to move from clipboards and printouts and laptops and >> specialty handhelds to tablets. >> >> Pads are going to replace a LOT of machines over the next decade. I'm >> guessing Apple, Android, W-eight, Win, Place and Show, but it's a >> horse race, so you never can tell...
> It's not the same as saying "desktops and keyboards are dead". Dead is what > Edison wax cylinder recordings and dial telephones (but not POTS phone > service) are. > > Real keyboards that provide tactile feedback and allow touch typing are, and > always will be, irreplaceable for many types of data entry. ------------------- <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVC2cszdTao> > Desktops are cheaper, faster, last longer and are easier to maintain than > laptops--and cannot be lost on the bus or dropped into toilets--and will > therefore be essential to the budgets of many organizations. So is a straight 6 under the hood. > They will never be "dead". They won't be universal, but they will be much > more common for business productivity purposes than, say, vinyl LPs are for > music reproduction purposes are. -------------- For users probably not. For development teams there may be a different story. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmylqodjbrk8quy4acahjnfp-4ct01xjrz76c8uodkvu...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
