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Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« on: February 26, 2011, 06:04:00 PM »
Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
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February 11, 2011
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Whether they noticed that it or not, the conventional Personal Computer user has already embraced the cloud, storing their information on remote servers so it is attainable anywhere, from any device. Using services similar to Google Docs and Google Calendar when you own multi-part Net-connected gadgets is simply matter of convenience. Not wanting offline storage of information is the initial step in smartphone dominance.    ...
http://thepc-notebooks.com/pc-notebooks/apple-laptops-will-the-smartphone-replace-the-pc/

My question now is: How will I break my Desktop habit?

I have top working Desktops, one Laptop and one Android tablet.
But... I do not have a smart phone. ::)

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2011, 06:22:57 PM »

Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?

No

My question now is: How will I break my Desktop habit?

Why would you want to?? I certainly dont!
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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2011, 02:52:26 PM »
Whoever somehow replaced the term "online backup/storage" with the more vague and altogether meaningless "cloud" term needs to be shot. I thought it actually meant something different- as in distributed storage, but suddenly now simply uploading a file to a remote server is uploading to the "cloud"

Also, I find it interesting how people like to refer to them as "Smartphones" when what they ought to be called is gameboy clones. "Oh hey, look at me, I can play tetris on my phone! I rule!"  ::)
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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2011, 04:16:12 PM »
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Also, I find it interesting how people like to refer to them as "Smartphones" when what they ought to be called is gameboy clones. "Oh hey, look at me, I can play tetris on my phone! I rule!"  ::)
When searching this, there was one place where the 'expert' coined the expression intellectual phones. :rofl:

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2011, 05:08:27 PM »
Then he's an idiot...
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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2011, 05:53:01 PM »
Then he's an idiot...
I Agree. There are about 100 such idiots out there.
Here is just one of many.
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Over 2 million intellectual phones have recently been sold by Apple while Google have recently released a portray showing that over 160,000 Droid quick-witted phones are being activated every single day, 24/7! Although the web is quite literally overrun with advertising, nobody has taken serious sign of the alternative that is staring them in the face. There is tranquil very dinky competition in mobile marketing. This massive market could be yours to fully exploit at will!    ...
http://www.richman-richman.com/mobile-marketing-the-alternative-marketing-revolution-the-facts/
From a Google that gave 150 + recent references.

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2011, 06:40:23 PM »
It's also possible it was merely translated from another language...
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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2011, 06:48:10 PM »
It's also possible it was merely translated from another language...
Right you are!
Some were not English..
They wee British!   :D

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2011, 06:56:53 PM »
In fact reading the rest of the text, it seems clear that it is a Translation of some sort.
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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2011, 04:20:01 PM »
To be serous. No. The writer has been trained in English and is very good. But his culture is South East Asia.  :)

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2011, 04:46:25 PM »
No he's not...
" Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2011, 06:12:01 PM »
It's not been translated only once- it was translated into another language and back to english.

The original English passage:

"Over 2 million smart phones have recently been sold by Apple while Google have recently released a report showing that over 160,000 Droid smart phones are being activated every single day, 24/7! Although the web is quite literally overrun with advertising, nobody has taken serious note of the alternative that is staring them in the face. There is still very little competition in mobile marketing. This massive market could be yours to fully exploit at will!"

Found here.

Basically, what you found was not the actual article but rather some other blog that crawls the web and fills itself with other peoples material. I've seen my own stuff being thrown up all over the place, actually.


Additionally, Wether you can bring up stuff with google is wholly, and entirely irrelevant to the question you posed. You cannot just say "will the smartphone replace the PC" and then, because you found a few other people that agree with you, declare it as correct. That's essentially the same trap that those people that are convinced the world is flat and all the space photos and curvature is a huge conspiracy. They found people that agree with what they think, and they base all of their evidence on that agreement. It's utterly redundant and makes as good an argument as none at all.

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2011, 06:30:13 PM »
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That's essentially the same trap that those people that are convinced the world is flat and all the space photos and curvature is a huge conspiracy.

What! The earth is NOT flat.
I can't believe you said that!  :o

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2011, 06:34:20 PM »
What! The earth is NOT flat.
I can't believe you said that!  :o

But it is flat. See here:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

Check out their forum:
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11293.0

See? It says so on the internet, so it must be true.
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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2011, 06:39:14 PM »
That's essentially the same trap that those people that are convinced the world is flat and all the space photos and curvature is a huge conspiracy.

You mean the worlds not flat?

When I hear any talk about smart phones replacing PCs I think back several years ago when I had a Palm 5.  Palm 5s screen is about the size of most smart phones.  I did a lot of work with spreadsheets and I bought a spreadsheet program for the Palm.  Because of the small screen size the program on the Palm was next to worthless for anything but the simplest spreadsheets.

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Re: Will The Smartphone Replace The PC?
« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2011, 06:34:07 AM »

The world isnt flat, its shaped like a carrot. It only looks round when you see it end on.
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