The growing area of tablet and phone add-on stations that replicate a lot of the functionality of a desktop are interesting. I have one for my iPad. It allows connecting USB and an HDMI out video port. That makes my iPad virtually a desktop in the sense that it can do a lot of the things I use my desktop for now. There are also stations for your phone. I suspect you will see those stations replace the laptop/desktop combination for many workers in the next two-three years.
But, what always amazes me is the sheer functionality now available for the phone itself. I carry two phones today (one for work, android, and one for personal iPhone). The later versions of both operating systems are a lot closer to each other than the Mac and PC are. Although, for me, the biggest gap remains that Macs don’t have touch screens. I press the screen of my mac multiple times! Still, the use of the systems is much closer now than it was when I first made the mac to PC transition.
Where I honestly still struggle is the tablets. The Android Tablet is just less useful than the iPad. Now, in fairness, that may be my thing. But I find that I use the iPad every day and the android tablet less than once a week, not because it’s hard, just because it is not as simple as the iPad.
I will end simply with this—hope springs with the rise of the sun each day. I truly hope that saner heads will realize war solves nothing.
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