In message <e1oqo1x-0008vu...@outmx06.plus.net>, Martin Wheatley
<mart...@martinwheatley.plus.com> writes
With the iPad, you have missed the point I was making.
I was using the "iPad like devices" - not the iPad per se - as an
example as to the way things may well ( are ) going forward.
Then we will have to disagree. There is a place for the Ipad and Ipadalikes
but I don't see it replacing PCs
We will see ... :-)
I received, today, a promotion for a new portable computer which has two
touch screens. One way where you may expect it, and the other where the
QWERTY keypad would normally be.
It can display a view using both screens, or one screen.
The other screen can have six different virtual modes of operation.
So, it is a crossover product, with portable computer capacity and touch
screen technology.
You seem to be anti-Apple ( poor Steve Jobs ) ... :-)
Not at all. I admire his ability to stick a bit of coloured
plastic on something, quadruple the price and get away with it
The one thing he isn't is poor!
Don't underestimate how difficult it is to bring innovative electronic
products to market.
Sir Clive had innovative ideas and brought electronic products to
market, yet didn't stay a world leader.
Steve Jobs has done it over and over again, and made it very successful
world wide.
The influence on others is also very profound.
The Cloud is more than that - as the concept develops it will have the
potential to take away "owing" individual versions of software on
individual devices - like computers - or on network servers, etc.
Providers could just stop selling individual versions of software,
altogether. Or sell them only at quite high cost.
At same time as offering you a "free" service, through their own provision.
Which, then, would you choose ?
And you miss my point. It won't be free. You will be expected to pay for
Word and Excel and many others over and over again. They will charge you
an annual fee for using each prog
Microsoft tried to quietly introduce this a few years and had to
withdraw it in the
face of consumer resistance.
Computer software and hardware companies do things in their own
interest not yours
and the cloud under various names is something they've been trying to introduce
for years. Do you really trust Microsoft or Google to keep all your letters
rather than keeping them yourself? I don't think so
The fee basis works well in industry. Always has.
For personal use it will be provided "free".
Although, a persons "free" use will continue to make money for the
provider behind the scenes.
--
Malcolm Cadman
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