The superior function of a tool should not be compared to the artisan that uses it. Better artists with better tools make greater things. Better tools with lesser artists still lets them do better, but doesn't ensure that it is so. Sometimes a "superior" tool has more ways of going wrong as well, but the point is made.
Cell phones used to just be "phones". Then they added a camera. Added SMS. Added PTT. Added video chat. Added OS with apps. etc. They are becoming ever more integrated. As this goes on logical combinations will make certain dedicated devices largely obsolete. I have a GS on my HTC Touch. I have an unlimited data plan & google maps. Why do I need a GPS? on it I have a browser that DOES Adobe flash. It also places phones calls (imagine that), and fits in my pocket. Netbooks offer greater expansion and initial function than iPhone or iPad. So with regards to the iPad, what functions set it apart from my cell phone, and from my PC to warrant its existance and cost? Is $500 USD to START (on a dead-end non-expandable device) worth this difference? Who gets the most out of a device like it? How long till those few points are better served by something else? My phone is old by today's standards. 3 years easily. look at the Snapdragon powered ones with HD screens double or more ram, huge MicroSD and faster networks. I don't see much of a future for this device given the ROI. Andrew > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:38:53 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MLUG] OT Re: i-pad, i-phone, i this that and the other i-thing. > > concepts wrote: > >> ..and a camera uses film, not a digital sensor. Wait, no it uses > >> > > > > Jemery, you have totally avoided any use of logic. The phone's purpose and > > use > > is not altered and you should then have also made the same retrograde > > comments > > going back to bark megaphones... > > Replacing a sensor and replacing a battery are two entirely different things > > and you were being obtuse to say the least and know it! > > As for dear old Ansel, I'd show him a D3x and its resulting images which > > would > > surpass what he used... Or I could just show him an 8×10 digital camera > > scanner that out-perform his wildest dreams. Not as fast as his view camera, > > but just as portable in not lighter. > > So next time, try at least to keep it real. > > > > Andre > Adnre, you busted me! Ansel _would_ have to bow down to our superior > technology. I mean, imagine he had access to that! He could have snapped > 400 shots of the same guy in a few minutes and just picked the best one > rather than painstakingly composing every shot and using the art of > photography to capture his subjects. > > The other day I was at the phone store and they had this "wireless" > phone. I whipped out my 15 foot phone extension cord and exclaimed "why > would i need that?". Phones have cords people! > > Things change whether we like it or not. It is not logical to think that > convergence and advancing technology is bad or will not happen. > > What you are comfortable with is different than me, and thank Linus > above for that or else we'd all be using the same devices and probably > all look the same too. > > I like the saying "the best camera is the one you have with you". > > Keepin' it real, > > Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca _________________________________________________________________
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