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Welcome to the Post-PC era >> Jeff Atwood
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9 weeks ago by guardiantech
I'm incredibly conflicted, because as much as I love the do-anything computer …
I'm not sure that many people in the world truly need a general purpose computer that can do anything and install any kind of software. Simply meeting the core needs of browsing the web and email and maybe a few other basic things covers a lot of people.
I believe the kitchen-sink-itis baked into the general purpose computing foundations of PCs, Macs, and Unix make them fundamentally incompatible with our brave new Post PC world. Updates. Toolbars. Service Packs. Settings. Anti-virus. Filesystems. Control panels. All the stuff you hate when your Mom calls you for tech support? It's deeply embedded into of the culture and design of every single general purpose computer. Doing potentially "anything" comes at a steep cost in complexity.
Very, very small PCs – the kind you could fit in your pocket – are starting to have the same amount of computing grunt as a high end desktop PC of, say, 5 years ago. And that was plenty, even back then, for a relatively inefficient general purpose operating system.
9 weeks ago by guardiantech
Q&A: Ray Ozzie on startups, Microsoft, and what he’s dreaming up next >> GeekWire
11 weeks ago by guardiantech
Ray Ozzie - who took Bill Gates's chief software architect job, but left Microsoft in displeasure:
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We know right now, there’s no denying that we’re in a great transition. People argue about, are we in a post-PC world. Why are we arguing? Of course we’re in a post-PC world, but that doesn’t mean the PC dies. That just means that the scenarios that we use them in, we stop referring to them as PCs, we refer to these other things. But it’s still general computation.
In other scenarios there are also other post-worlds. For example, in productivity, the PC era was defined by documents. Documents are the core of how we have thought about productivity. But if you count the words that everyone here types on a computer, increasingly in Facebook, in Twitter, in this blogging package and tis and that, by addressable market of words types, the classic document, is decreasing as a part of that, and what productivity is the meta level around documents, as much as the documents. So we’re actually into a post-doc world, as much as we’re heading into a post-PC world.
11 weeks ago by guardiantech
FAA approves iPads in the cockpit; American Airlines to start Friday >> ZDNet
december 2011 by guardiantech
"In June the Allied Pilots Association noted that American Airlines (AA) conducted the first tests of iPads for all phases of flight. AA pilots received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to test iPads with electronic charts this summer and asked to take it to the next logical level: replacing most of their paper books and charts with digital documents on the iPad.
"Seattle Pi notes that a 1.5 pound iPad replaces about 35 pounds of paper saving an estimated $1.2m worth of fuel per year."
Don't worry - they won't be used to run Photoshop. Real computing is still safe from these incursions.
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"Seattle Pi notes that a 1.5 pound iPad replaces about 35 pounds of paper saving an estimated $1.2m worth of fuel per year."
Don't worry - they won't be used to run Photoshop. Real computing is still safe from these incursions.
december 2011 by guardiantech
A weekend at work with an iPad >> The 23x blog
december 2011 by guardiantech
Jared Earle: "Could I recommend that other photographers ditch the laptop for an iPad? I think so, as long as they have a workstation at home for the post-event editing. The iPad cannot replace a computer, but it can lighten the load while photographing al fresco, and that means more space for bigger lenses in the camera bag."
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december 2011 by guardiantech
Zittrain in Technology Review: The personal computer is dead
november 2011 by guardiantech
"The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don't merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we're seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other—and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along.
"This is a little for the better, and much for the worse."
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"This is a little for the better, and much for the worse."
november 2011 by guardiantech
A scenario where smartphones take down the PC >> TechPinions
november 2011 by guardiantech
Patrick Moorhead: "It all starts with the end user and making choices. If posed with the question, “if you had to choose between your phone of the PC, which one would you pick?” Sure, most want both, but making them choose makes them prioritize, and most would pick the phone. Why? One reason is that its so personal. People take it in the bed, bathroom, our pocket, on the dinner table. It knows where we are, what we’re doing, who we’re with, can communicate how we feel, etc. There are even reports that people would rather starve or refrain from sex rather than separate from their phone. Net-net, the phone is more personal and one variable that could, scenario speaking, accelerate the erosion and “take down” of the PC."
More that the phone gets more use than the PC, which thus gets replaced less often.
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More that the phone gets more use than the PC, which thus gets replaced less often.
november 2011 by guardiantech
Windows 8 is Windows 3.0, and Windows 7 is…DOS >> Technologizer
june 2011 by guardiantech
"This situation [with Windows 8] sounds a lot like the computing lifestyle that PC users lived with from 1990-1995 or thereabouts, when the commonplace state of affairs was to run Windows 3.x on top of DOS.<br />
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"Back then, DOS was tried-and-true, and Windows 3.x was a reaction–albeit a rather delayed one–to the trends Apple put into place with the original Mac. Every Windows user ran it on top of DOS, since Windows was at that point an environment rather than a self-contained operating system. And the vast majority of users split their time between new-wave Windows apps and old-school DOS ones."<br />
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Intriguing way of viewing it.
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"Back then, DOS was tried-and-true, and Windows 3.x was a reaction–albeit a rather delayed one–to the trends Apple put into place with the original Mac. Every Windows user ran it on top of DOS, since Windows was at that point an environment rather than a self-contained operating system. And the vast majority of users split their time between new-wave Windows apps and old-school DOS ones."<br />
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Intriguing way of viewing it.
june 2011 by guardiantech
Why "post PC" doesn't mean "sans PC" >> Michael Gartenberg
april 2011 by guardiantech
Michael Gartenberg, who has seen tons of consumer gadgets come and go: "So, why so much hype about the post-PC world? Because historically, as PCs have become increasingly sophisticated, they’ve also become increasingly complex. Users become empowered by new features while simultaneously being forced to contend with complex systems..<br />
"This is one reason why devices like the iPad have become popular. No, they can’t do everything a PC can do today—but that’s not a bad thing. The iPad performs some tasks quite well, all while keeping those tasks simple—and that means an iPad can replace that second or third PC someone was thinking of buying.<br />
As we transition into a post-PC world, the ability of devices to balance new technology and features against complexity for a given set of functions will help drive purchases. The key will be for users to figure out just what device best matches the appropriate skill set or need. Need to decode the human genome? There’s no app for that just yet."
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"This is one reason why devices like the iPad have become popular. No, they can’t do everything a PC can do today—but that’s not a bad thing. The iPad performs some tasks quite well, all while keeping those tasks simple—and that means an iPad can replace that second or third PC someone was thinking of buying.<br />
As we transition into a post-PC world, the ability of devices to balance new technology and features against complexity for a given set of functions will help drive purchases. The key will be for users to figure out just what device best matches the appropriate skill set or need. Need to decode the human genome? There’s no app for that just yet."
april 2011 by guardiantech
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