brewmaster15
07-06-2018, 09:57 AM
Smart phones and to a lesser degree tablets are a core part of modern life today. We go everywhere with them. Mines on me 24/7. Its an indispensible tool to stay in touch with people both work related and personal. Smart phones are also the jack of most trades tool. They can take decent pictures, the digital interface "keyboard" is pretty decent. They can play music, display videos, connect seemlessly with apps that make life easier or more interesting. They really are, if you think on it ,the perfect tool for consumption of data. Your phones allow you to read content fairly well. Want to.know how to do something...watch a you tube video. Want to know how to cook a dish...again theres videos or websites on it. Want to know how to solve a Discus problem...no worries.
browse away. The strength of a mobile device like a smart phone is not just that its portable...its that it enables us to be a nation and world of consummers. Consumption is generally much easier than production though, so a vast number of people today are consummers, just as they were in the hey day of print media like Newspaper.
What about laptops and desktops? I know people that don't even use these anymore. For them the mobile devices suffice.Laptops and Desktops are fairly good at connecting to social media, they can't use apps in the same sense as mobile devices though. You can still consume to your hearts content... watching videos is actually better in most cases on these non-mobile devices. But they aren't portable. You aren't going to whip out your pc in the doctor's office and check the latest tweet storm or the weather forecast.You can't really take it to dinner either and even laptops are bulky for car trips. So why use one anyway?
Most people probably don't need non-mobile devices today or rarely do. Where they excel is content creation. You can't beat a real keyboard to type a long article on or develop a website with. You wont be making any high quality digital images with your phone. Take a dslr picture though, pop it into a good pc and hi res monitor and you have magic in the making. Write a book on your phone? no thanks! Keyboards are better for that. What about data storage and manipulation? Again' non-mobile devices beat phones and tablets just in shear computational capacity,processors, and storage space.
You can be a consummer of data well enough with non-mobile devices like laptops and pcs. Mobile devices take the award for that. But to create/produce content the lap top and pc are boss.
Though I have gotten proficient at posting even long posts here with my smart phone I still prefer my keyboard and a large screen of a monitor. It may not be as convenient as the technological wonder my smart phone is but its easier to create content on.Its also more ergonomic. I wouldnt be surprised if down the road a bit we see a huge spike in injuries related to smart phone use. A chiropracter I met once said hes already seeing alot of injuries attributed to posture and mobile devices. Im pretty sure carpal tunnel injuries will show up too as teens grow. To be fair he saw a fair share of posture related injuries for pc /laptop users that did not use ergonomic setups.
So how about you. Consummer or Producer (creator)? Do you use your mobile phone now exclusively? Do you even own non-mobile devices like pcs and laptops. If you do what do you use them for?
al
ps... this post was created on my smart phone....but would have been much easier on my laptop.:)
browse away. The strength of a mobile device like a smart phone is not just that its portable...its that it enables us to be a nation and world of consummers. Consumption is generally much easier than production though, so a vast number of people today are consummers, just as they were in the hey day of print media like Newspaper.
What about laptops and desktops? I know people that don't even use these anymore. For them the mobile devices suffice.Laptops and Desktops are fairly good at connecting to social media, they can't use apps in the same sense as mobile devices though. You can still consume to your hearts content... watching videos is actually better in most cases on these non-mobile devices. But they aren't portable. You aren't going to whip out your pc in the doctor's office and check the latest tweet storm or the weather forecast.You can't really take it to dinner either and even laptops are bulky for car trips. So why use one anyway?
Most people probably don't need non-mobile devices today or rarely do. Where they excel is content creation. You can't beat a real keyboard to type a long article on or develop a website with. You wont be making any high quality digital images with your phone. Take a dslr picture though, pop it into a good pc and hi res monitor and you have magic in the making. Write a book on your phone? no thanks! Keyboards are better for that. What about data storage and manipulation? Again' non-mobile devices beat phones and tablets just in shear computational capacity,processors, and storage space.
You can be a consummer of data well enough with non-mobile devices like laptops and pcs. Mobile devices take the award for that. But to create/produce content the lap top and pc are boss.
Though I have gotten proficient at posting even long posts here with my smart phone I still prefer my keyboard and a large screen of a monitor. It may not be as convenient as the technological wonder my smart phone is but its easier to create content on.Its also more ergonomic. I wouldnt be surprised if down the road a bit we see a huge spike in injuries related to smart phone use. A chiropracter I met once said hes already seeing alot of injuries attributed to posture and mobile devices. Im pretty sure carpal tunnel injuries will show up too as teens grow. To be fair he saw a fair share of posture related injuries for pc /laptop users that did not use ergonomic setups.
So how about you. Consummer or Producer (creator)? Do you use your mobile phone now exclusively? Do you even own non-mobile devices like pcs and laptops. If you do what do you use them for?
al
ps... this post was created on my smart phone....but would have been much easier on my laptop.:)