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Microsoft is right. HP is wrong. Again! | |
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| Time: 14:48 EST/19:48 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Funny thing happened this week in the tech press. On Thursday, the Inquirer printed a story with the headline "Touch Screen Is the Future of Computing, Says Microsoft." The very next day, Vnunet.com published another story headlined "Touch Screens Are Not the Future of Computing, Says HP." Microsoft is right. HP is wrong. Again. | ||
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| #1 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at 3/29/2009 5:24:21 PM |
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Ya know, I've been using a touch screen portable computer for years. I think the convertible tablet computer with touch or stylus input is great for surfing the web and light computing without data input and to take notes (it also makes a great interface for a handheld device).
I am in a super-minority on this one. The supposed champion of the tablet computer was none other than the Grand Wizard himself, Mr. Gates but despite years of improving the interface the touch market is still very small for portable computers and virtually non-existent for desk based models. I agree with HP that pen/touch computing will always be for niche markets like, well, vertical environments such as the medical field. HP knows its own sales figures well. They happen to make very good touch devices for both the desktop and notebook market. The future of input devices is to use speech and typing: speech to move the cursor and the keyboard to input information. Fingers love keyboards. It is very natural. The problem is removing your hands to do other stupid tasks that slow you down (using the mouse or even pen and paper). The hoopla about touch is another marketing gimmick. Look for speech input on non-handhelds to eventually rule the roost. |
| #2 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at 3/29/2009 9:08:11 PM |
| OldDog, I think an office full of people talking on the phone and commanding their PCs at the same time is a scene of borderline chaos. Touch makes a lot of sense where voice command does not. Its quiet. It can be done while talking on the phone and the person you are speaking with doesn't see or hear what you are doing. It'll be better then typing for many uses, but not replace it for most. Verbal computer commands being done by customer service reps are not likely to be the next big thing, just the next big office annoyance. |
| #3 By 15406 (72.140.218.146) at 3/29/2009 9:13:43 PM |
| And we know that MS is right and HP is wrong, because Mike Elgan agrees with MS. Move along. |
| #4 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 3/30/2009 9:13:17 AM |
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Disclaimer: I am biased because I am a huge fan of the Tablet PC.
Being a person that takes notes, manage appointments etc. etc. all the times I always carried a Filofax agenda with me; in spite of this I started exploring the possibility to switch to an electronic device in 1982 when I bought a Casio device that was an ancestor of the modern PDA. To the left size of the device there was a kind of "blackboard" where you were supposed to draw the letter or the number you wanted to input. Since then I kept with this "schizofrenic" path trying newer electronic devices while I kept carrying my Filofax for years and years till I gave up entering information both on electronic and paper support. While I am quite happy with my Exchange, Mesh, Desktop, Tablet and Smartphone environment I must admit that sometimes, while I can dictate a voice note to my smartphone or use OneNote etc., I miss the simpliciity of the old act of scrabbling something on a pice of paper, putting it in my pocket and be able to retrieve it with the simple act of pulling it out. In my opinion this means that there is not a Holy Grail to how to interact with our devices: I am not a fast typist so I would prefer to write something on a screen and have it turned into a Word document; voice input could be a possibility but pronunciations could be an issue, an other issue, in case you are dealing with sensitive information could be security: someone could overhear you or read your lips. Touch capability has its usefulness but could not replace a pen; they are complementary to each other. Bottom line is that what I would like is a device with roughly 6 3/4 X 3 3/4 dimension (yes these are the dimension of my Filofax), with a touch screen, comunications abilities including phone calls, instant ON, enough power to handle smoothly handwriting, voice and typing input and a battery life that under heavy use will last 24 hours. Would a device like this replace my smartphone? Probably Monday to Friday during business time yes; I would not carry it going out for a personal dinner :-), I would carry it with me during the week-end butI would leave it in the car. Would it replace my Tablet? Absolutely not! If I am reading an Excel spreadsheet... screen size matter. Last but most important the OS: I would like to see something like the woman on the plane uses in the 2019 MS OfficeLab clip. Will I see it? Maybe, maybe not; maybe by the time technologies will be there people of my same generation will be out of the market, therefore irrilevant and younger ones, with different reequirements will decide the standards. Like books: I like to read a real book, electronic ones do not give me the same feelig; nothing wrong with them, they just do not fit me. This post was edited by Fritzly on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 09:18. |
| #5 By 17855 (205.167.180.131) at 3/30/2009 9:59:36 AM |
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This is just plain stupid. HP has a whole product line of all in one touch screen PC's.
Jeez do these people research anything... |
| #6 By 143 (96.28.64.244) at 3/30/2009 11:08:22 AM |
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I'm a maintenance man at a factory "trust me" fingernails and touch screens do not mix. This post was edited by donpacman on Monday, March 30, 2009 at 11:09. |
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