Fair enough. My opinion and the big difference I see between this and the 80's argument you use however is the keyboard.
The desktop / mainframe was solved with computing power installed into the desktop. I have a droid 3 with and i would not want to enter tasks all day with that little keyboard. Now it's fortunate that in my setting I am exactly the reverse. I am desk bound. My tasks for the most part originate around my desktop / laptop and I can complete some but not many mobile and definitely some capture mobile. Most of my task completion requires data entry of some type. spreadsheets, inventory control, using third party management software etc. I may be wrong and will borrow a tablet to verify, but without a actual physical keyboard with a number keypad I think I would be out of business. Now if i was a salesperson on the road I might not have anything but a tablet. To constantly be writing words and sharing information I think a tablet would be perfect, along with a phone to make calls. I think there are many more desk bound people than mobile but I may be wrong. This is a good discussion but probably not one that can be solved. I honestly probably shouldn't be commenting at all. If I have a place to make a list and check if off when I have done it then I have all I need. I came from a phone and pda and laptop, so just eliminating the pda was a win for me. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I'm just not typical (wouldn't be the first time :-) but MLO is > my most-used application and the Android is where I do my real work. > Something like 60% of my task captures and my task completions happen > away from my laptop. Since my phone is always with me, it's present > for 100% of my task captures and completions. I actually find > sometimes that when I am on the laptop working between browser and > word processor and I realize something I need to do, it's faster to > hit the [+] icon one my phone, enter a couple of words, and hit > [create] than to do it on the laptop. > > I want MLO on the phone to do all the task management that I need > while I am out living my life. This includes taking down to-dos while > I am at a restaurant having a meal with a client, checking off that I > have picked up a brochure at the printer, and checking which of my > pending calls-to-make I should do next. For me, the laptop is for > housekeeping and maintenance, such as archiving, sifting the dozens of > new tasks in my inbox into categories and folders, fleshing out a > project structure and setting complex dependencies. > > I understand and agree that there's more per-unit revenue in desktop > apps than phone apps (I think the jury is still out on tablet app > revenues.) but I think that mobile apps will be the driver that > creates demand for the desktop app. The whole conversation about the > limited role of phones and tablets is like a replay of the arguments I > had in the 1980s with people who said desktops would never be good for > anything but forms-based data entry, because mainframes have so much > more power. > > I am in favor of continuing development of the desktop app. For people > who take their hands off of the desktop keyboard from time to time, I > think task management demands a mobile app and it would be a mistake > to dismiss it as just a toy or a tracking tool. > -Dwight > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized?hl=en.
