I agree. Some casual user are quick to jump into new technologies without weighing the pros and cons; particularly yuppies and anything Apple, for whom the device is more of a status symbol than an actual tool. I find the smaller tablets too small for anything other than casual use. If weight is an issue, there are several full featured ultra-lights at just over 2 pounds. I rather have a full featured laptop with me than a restricted iPad. Again, while some of these new technologies are helpful to the casual user, they are definitely not ready for prime time in production environments. Just my 2 cents.
Javier, Javier Valencia, PE O: 913-829-0888 H: 913-397-9605 C: 913-915-3137 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Byerley Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:30 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets Tablets for data input is a non starter in my opinion (notice of highly opinionated individual). By the time you add the additional hardware necessary to be anywhere productive at data entry on a tablet, you have exceeded the price of most netbooks and quite a few laptops, which will have a fully functioning Windows operating system on it. Keyboard on a screen, still a clunky, toylike crutch for entering anything meaningful. Even using Swype, you might muster 35 wpm for the fastest AFAIK. Voice to Text works halfway decent if there is no background noice at all, again rendering it impractical for use in data entry, particularly if the entry is meaningless with respect to actual words and phrases. Seems like tablets are the new bright shiny thing that everyone wants and because they are so neat, they start hunting for actual uses for them. I think they fall woefully short as a computer interface. Again, (notice of highly opinionated individual) ----- Original Message ----- From: "MDRD" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:44 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets Thanks for the info.. I think some of my clients would like to use 1 or 2 of our forms on a tablet, they think it would be cool to to walk around with a tablet and input data. Really a nice laptop in each room would work better. Also, there are so many different tablets with different sizes and resolutions it might just add another layer of headaches. Marc From: John Engwer Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:43 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets Marco, One of my clients asked me to connect her Kindle Fire (Android) to the RBASE application that she is using. I used a free RDP app called AccessToGo to accomplish the task. The ATG app works well and my RBASE applications are fully functional. However, the Fire has a small screen so it takes a lot of screen resizing to operate the RBASE application. I may redesign some of the forms and reports to work better with the small screen if there is enough interest from my clients. Note: the ATG will not work if you are RDPing to a server. It does not support Network Level Authentication. John Engwer (412) 751-2433 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Groeneveld Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:13 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Rbase and Tablets Hi, I have tried a special DB App with connection to R:BASE and HTML (with CodeCharge), but I think a Remote Client to a server with R:BASE is the best at this moment. Are there any other experiences and which Remote Client would be the best to be used on iPad or Android Tablet ? Marco ----- Original Message ----- From: MDRD To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 4:32 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Rbase and Tablets There was a short thread last summer about tablets and RBase but I have not heard much about that lately. Any suggestions on how to use a tablet with RBase or which tablet is best? Thanks Marc
