Is technology our Umbilical cord? To wired for our own good?

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Postby MiTT3NZ » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:49 am

No, tablets are halfway between smartphone and computer. The only people who get any real use out of a tablet are the likes of estate agents and suits who have a lot of meetings/presentations. There are very few things you can do on a tablet that you can't already do on a smartphone or a computer, and most people who get tablets either already have both or don't travel enough to need a portable watered-down version of a computer. Tablets have a specific demograph that their concept is tailor-made for. Everyone else who buys one gets it coz they like it, or coz it's "in".
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:53 am

People didn't use to have more than 1 TV. Or 1 phone in the house. Then became the need for more than one. Tablets started out with no practical use other than a rich boy toy. Tablets are becoming the bedroom/kitchen phone,the bedroom TV. Only can go much further. They now have more practical uses and becoming the new secondary PC
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Postby MiTT3NZ » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:00 am

Not really. The majority of "tablet-exclusive" apps are controllers. And again, nothing that you can't already do with what's already at your disposal.
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:09 am

Willing to bet in 5 years on a near 1:1 ration every PC owner will have a tablet. Most those PC owners will be ultrabooks. Few will have powerful PC's that do more than a ultra book. Most people use it for email and browse the web. Chrome book at 250$ is the start of the new wave of the family PC. Deskstops are now pick up trucks. Used for heavy heavy duty stuff. Laptops are becoming the SUV. Mom is going to cal next month and bringing her tablet not laptop. People when traveling it's wall to wall tablets in planes. Right now tablets are mainly a fun toy but that's changing very quickly. I mean when you can get leather tablet cases at big lots for 3$ or just the fact it's at big lots now. Yeah tablet market is growing very fast and PC sales are plummeting.
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Postby MiTT3NZ » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:16 am

I'm not talking PCs, I'm talking any form of computer. Be it desktop, netbook, mini, etc. And, as I keep saying whilst you choose to ignore, aside from a few controller apps, there is nothing on a tablet that can't already be done on a smartphone or... I'm gonna choose to say laptop now to help you understand. In fact, I should've used "and/or" as opposed to just "or".

I'm not arguing the popularity of tablets, I'm saying that for the average joe, they're pointless, as we already have both the convenience and capabilities. Name me one thing that you can do on a tablet that you can't do on a smartphone, and another thing you can't do on a laptop.
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:25 am

I was was just talking about how tablets were going up in popularity and being the new secondary PC. Esp wi fi models. Not everyone can pay or afford monthly 3g/4g bills. Also it's in no way meant to replace the main PC.
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Postby MiTT3NZ » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:28 am

No, we were talking about phones.
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:32 am

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Postby Riku Rose » Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:10 am

Nice to see people can have mature debates.
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Re: Is technology our Umbilical cord? To wired for our own g

Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 8:50 am

The Dojo is not Fraiser and no one is Ron Swanson. We are all Big Bang Theory mixed with Freaks and Geaks.
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Postby QWERTY » Wed Nov 07, 2012 10:22 am

Ryudo wrote: The Dojo is not Fraiser and no one is Ron Swanson. We are all Big Bang Theory mixed with Freaks and Geaks.


Don't tarnish everyone else with the same base-level humour as yourself.
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Re: Is technology our Umbilical cord? To wired for our own g

Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:49 pm

QWERTY™ wrote:
Ryudo wrote: The Dojo is not Fraiser and no one is Ron Swanson. We are all Big Bang Theory mixed with Freaks and Geaks.


Don't tarnish everyone else with the same base-level humour as yourself.

Don't you try and act like you are above everyone else. You post on the same nerdy geeky video game website as the rest of us. You just try to act like you are too cool for all of us. Like the teenager too embarrassed to be seen with his mom around his peers. QWERTY is the angry blonde in Freaks n Geeks..I guess I'm the jewish kid :P
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Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:59 pm

Nothing wrong with Big Bang Theory either.

Do I rely on technology too much? Hell yes. But I can manage without it, apart from the irritability when the network goes down. I think future generations will be more fucked than us when it comes to "reliance", and things breaking down, but I am sure they'll manage, as a species we are good at adapting to things...
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Postby Bluecast » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:02 pm

I grew to like that show at times. It can be enjoyable. One thing that takes me out of it is the one guy I can never see past the fact he was on Roseanne as david.

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Postby St. Elmo's Fire » Wed Nov 07, 2012 2:40 pm

Ryudo wrote: I grew to like that show at times. It can be enjoyable. One thing that takes me out of it is the one guy I can never see past the fact he was on Roseanne as david.


Roseanne, Christ, that takes me back! Didn't actually know that he was on that, but a quick pull on my technological umbilical cord had me racing through Google and Wiki, to see that even though he looks too obviously "old" to be a student in Big Bang, he did look quite similar back in his Roseanne days. ! ;-)

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