On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 11:46:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
I just saw this post about the upcoming Lenovo/AT&T Moto Tab
and thought of you:
https://www.phonearena.com/news/Lenovo-Moto-Tab-ATT-features_id99782
For $300, you can buy a tablet that lets you do everything you
normally do on a tablet, plus watch TV on the go. If you want
to use it for work, you buy the bluetooth accessories shown in
that embedded promo youtube video and you can do that too.
Want a screen in your kitchen, to control that optional
speaker, watch recipe videos while you cook, and do video
calls? That's a fairly new use case you can try out too.
So for $300 or a bit more, depending on what accessories you
get, you replace your laptop and TV, and have completely new
things you can do. While this effort is fairly ambitious-
having watched movies on my tablet with family members, similar
to how the family in the video does, I can attest that your
arms get tired holding the tablet out front like they do- seems
to me that mobile convergence is only increasing.
As for your mom and cousin going back to PCs, let me tell you
about my own mom. Five years ago, we were both using Windows
laptops: her chunky laptop for her business, my Win7 ultrabook
for coding and recreation. Today, we both use Android tablets
for these same uses- we're both on our second Android tablet
now- plus she'll actually use her tablet at home now because a
10" tablet is nowhere as bulky as a Windows laptop.
She never typed much in her business use, mostly reading emails
and other viewing, so the laptop keyboard was always
superfluous, but she had to have one because almost nobody was
selling tablets a decade ago when she got it. Whereas, I
paired a bluetooth keyboard with my tablet and get by just fine
with that.
The sales data I've linked shows that there are a lot more
people like us than those you point out, and my point is that
the mobile market is encroaching even on to people like your
family, with products like that Moto Tab.
btw, if you want to get back on-topic, simply change the topic
of your post up top and write a post about the original topic,
rather than posting in an OT thread about what we're talking
about.
I'm thinking on picking up some Android tablet for development
purposes, would be good to port my game engine for mobile
devices, probably have to resort for OpenGL for graphics
acceleration instead of using CPU blitter, although that might
work under NEON (currently I'm using SSE2).