This is the question that is floating around this year. What is strange is that people act like the anticipated Apple device is made of fairy gold and powered by gnome breath. It will do everything and anything you want because we all know it is surrounded and protected by Steve Jobs’ now-famous reality distortion field. Personally, I think the class is interesting — but before Apple tosses stars in everyone’s eyes, I thought it might be interesting to consider what the tablet initially will be and what it eventually could be.
That is all I want to know. I have a *dead* Palm TX, and a similarly dead Palm Lifedrive. The later may be fixable, if I want to spend almost as much as it cost of buy the damn thing to replace the failed HD in it, or replace it with an idiotically rare 4GB HD card, which is directly compatible, and was only made by one company. It would still make the thing complete junk, with bad memory management, a near useless DB based OS, and an expansion slot that doesn't support HDSD, but at least I would have something that a) worked, and b) was *allowed* to have with me on the sales floor of the store I work for.
Why isn't anything else allowed? Because they are all frakking phones. I am surprised, at this point, that my tooth brush or electric razor don't have phones crammed into them, somehow. Not everyone can have, needs, or wants, phone service in their palm computer, and even here, I can find Wifi, often free, so I don't need to spend **extra** money every month to have access to cell-fi, just so I can look something up once a week on a tiny screen, using a browser that won't necessarily show all the content I want, or not crash when it runs into something not "designed for cell phones".
I would love to see someone come up with a palm top computer, thinner than the horrible Lifedrive was, with solid state storage, *real* support for large HDSD cards, without stuff crammed together in it in a way that makes it break a year later, which has an OS that you can actually put things into, or take things out of, like a thumb drive, not using special software, proprietary BS, restrictions on who, how, and even *if* you can code your own apps for it, and, as this point, I don't even mind if it costs more than a bloody high end laptop. I might have to wait a bit to buy it, but as least it wouldn't be a bloody phone, it would work in a way that was usable for techies, not just people downloading the latest, "certified and accepted by Apple app", and I could install something on it what would let me write things to do what *I* need.
Since that isn't going to happen, unless hell freezes over. Just leave out the stupid phone, so I can actually use the bloody thing. lol
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Do You Really Want a Smart-Tablet?
Posted by: Rob Enderle December 21, 2009 05:00 AMThis is the question that is floating around this year. What is strange is that people act like the anticipated Apple device is made of fairy gold and powered by gnome breath. It will do everything and anything you want because we all know it is surrounded and protected by Steve Jobs’ now-famous reality distortion field. Personally, I think the class is interesting — but before Apple tosses stars in everyone’s eyes, I thought it might be interesting to consider what the tablet initially will be and what it eventually could be.
Why isn't anything else allowed? Because they are all frakking phones. I am surprised, at this point, that my tooth brush or electric razor don't have phones crammed into them, somehow. Not everyone can have, needs, or wants, phone service in their palm computer, and even here, I can find Wifi, often free, so I don't need to spend **extra** money every month to have access to cell-fi, just so I can look something up once a week on a tiny screen, using a browser that won't necessarily show all the content I want, or not crash when it runs into something not "designed for cell phones".
I would love to see someone come up with a palm top computer, thinner than the horrible Lifedrive was, with solid state storage, *real* support for large HDSD cards, without stuff crammed together in it in a way that makes it break a year later, which has an OS that you can actually put things into, or take things out of, like a thumb drive, not using special software, proprietary BS, restrictions on who, how, and even *if* you can code your own apps for it, and, as this point, I don't even mind if it costs more than a bloody high end laptop. I might have to wait a bit to buy it, but as least it wouldn't be a bloody phone, it would work in a way that was usable for techies, not just people downloading the latest, "certified and accepted by Apple app", and I could install something on it what would let me write things to do what *I* need.
Since that isn't going to happen, unless hell freezes over. Just leave out the stupid phone, so I can actually use the bloody thing. lol