On 5/26/2012 7:31 PM, Charles Carroll wrote:
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> iPhone and Android phones are handheld PCs to many.
>
> Their touch screens and apps like Google Star Maps and games that are
> touch only ensure many people use them as HandHeld computers as well as
> phones. Try Google Star Maps on a PC or try any touch game or music
> program on a PC and you see why as handheld computers they are amazing.
> To those people a tablet is just halfway between a Handheld Computer and
> a laptop with the laptop losing for demanding a keyboard which is why
> Win8/9 convertibles will do 'ok' as long as they are so friendly to non
> keyboard users they are not crippled if users don't bring them sometimes.
>
> Me I am 60 / 40 use 60% as phone and 40% as handheld computer.
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> But I see why young people and extremely efficient adults prefer texting
> to phone calls. Much more efficient than phone calls in many scenarios
> and only way I communicate with 30 year old and younger types and
> efficient people. Texting is soo efficient because it can be answered
> seconds or hours later and there is written archives compared to voice
> where there is not.
>
[snip]
And texting adds so much to the thrill of driving. I don't see how
anybody lived without it! ;-)
--
David H. Bailey
dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
