Anthony Baldwin has written on 1/26/2014 12:01 AM: > > I keep hearing this, and it is quite true that many people, your average > consumer whatever, are using their smartphones and tablets more to > access internet stuff. > > But, there's a whole lot of things I do with a computer that are simply > not practically or ergonomically appropriate for a tablet or phone. > I'm certainly not going to hack on a phone, or work on a tablet. > I am a professional translator, hobby web/software developer. > I type thousands of words/day for my work, and need a real keyboard, > not some 5inch touchpad on a phone.
Are you not aware that, by using an OTG cable, you can attach a full-size USB keyboard to a phone or tablet? > I mean, are people going to write their thesis on a tablet? Could be. > And that's just writing stuff...what about all the complex > mathematical stuff done in the sciences... > I don't think astronomers are going to be crunching Hubble data on an > iPhone. The iPhone is not the be-all and end-all of "personal" computing devices. Will we always need supercomputers? Sure. > I DO use forums, friendica, redmatrix, libertree, pumpio, statusnet, > and other free/open source, decentralized, federated networking > platforms, however. > > No borrowed "cloud" storage, either. I will host and control my own > data, thank you. Will you take it with you you go? (Younger) People want access to their data they are. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
