[GreenKeys] OTsome charting on the death of desk top computers-seems the phone and tablet

[Jeffrey D Angus]

Remember when you /talked/ to people on telephones? And typically that
was while standing in the kitchen. ;-)
It was equally hard to ask your girlfriend "What are you wearing?" with
your mother standing there, as is was for her to answer with her father
standing around at the other end.

On the "death of desk top computers", I doubt it. If I'm going to watch a
movie, I am NOT going to watch it on a 2" x 3" screen on an iPhone.
Neither am I going to watch it on a 10" tablet.

Nor am I going to play swipe and stab trying to use AutoCAD or Spice
programs.

I have a flip phone. I use it to make PHONE calls. I do the occasional
text messages because that seems to be how some people prefer to
communicate. As annoying as it is, I use proper grammar, spelling and
capitalization.

I'll admit it's nice to be able to take the occasion picture of what's on
the work bench to send to my desktop back at the office/house.

I have NO desire to waste my free time in some mind numbing game
like Candy Crush, or Mafia Wars on a cell phone/tablet.

In all fairness, I was given a 4.3" tablet for my birthday a few years ago.
Next to impossible to use due to the small screen. I bought myself a 7"
tablet, at least I can read it, but again, about all I use it for is a 
nifty app
for reading signal strength of the WiFi signals.

Am I a Luddite? No, I just haven't decided I have to do what everyone
else is doing.

Jeff


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