Omg yes. If you have ever tried to sit down on a tablet and do something and after a few minutes of failing thought "fuck this, I need a real computer" then you know what I am talking about.
When tablets can do everything a pc can do now then we won't need pc's. But there is still a lot tablets can't do. My desktop is a gaming rig.... When a tablet can do that then the desktops will have also improved... Will tablets ever catch up? On 01/10/2013 11:24 AM, "mike smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes that might be where you want the customer to go, but I assure you that > it isn't necessarily where the customer is going. The recent debacle with > the tablet should be showing Microsoft that customers are not as willing to > follow them blindly. > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:03 AM, David Kean <[email protected]>wrote: > >> To a degree, but I think that’s more of a factor of what people are >> working on at the time and what they are comfortable with. For example, our >> team writes MSDN articles and we going to be talking about the new features >> that we just wrote, not existing areas that haven’t been touched in years. >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Scott Barnes >> *Sent:* Saturday, September 28, 2013 5:46 PM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: MSDN mag**** >> >> ** ** >> >> MSDN floats with the DPE tide mark. Its an editorial version of >> evangelism and its sole purpose is to get folks onto the new while showing >> them bridges from the old to the new. If DPE spend cycles talking to you >> about Windows 8 AppStore + JavaScript then MSDN will usually follow.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> This is really not a "magazine" for sustaining existing adoption(s) its >> really a marketing tool to get you move over to whatever next..**** >> >> >> **** >> >> --- >> Regards, >> Scott Barnes >> http://www.riagenic.com**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote:**** >> >> MSDN mag was once something I read cover to cover. Now, I glance >> at the front page, maybe read the editorial, then throw it into a drawer >> never to be looked at again.**** >> >> Am I the only one?**** >> >> **** >> >> Hell no! I'm fed up with articles about phones, Windows 8, Store Apps, >> Javascript and WinRT (mostly telling us what WinRT *can't do*). For >> years I was also slowly getting sick of McCaffrey's articles which were >> getting so academic that they were useless for real-world developers. So >> useless in fact that I was going to email the editors and politely tell >> them that although I'm a profound geek, I have absolutely no use for >> genetic algorithms, matrix decomposition, adaptive boosting or artificial >> immune systems. Even Petzold's relentless articles about perspective >> graphics and music synthesis aren't of much use or interest (even though >> I'm a musician).**** >> >> **** >> >> I have an almost unbroken set of issues going back to May 1993, and in >> the last 2 years I have felt the same shift of focus away from core >> languages, tools and frameworks into what marketing must think they want us >> to read. I scan all pages, but I find I'm increasingly flipping over more >> and more pages like you.**** >> >> **** >> >> Greg K**** >> >> **** >> >> P.S. I'd better go and look in the letterbox.**** >> >> ** ** >> > > > > -- > Meski > > http://courteous.ly/aAOZcv > > "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, > you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills >
