DocAndersen
Bite-sized applications, it is a phrase I coined more than five years ago. It was my initial attempt to explain why cell phones were rising and PC’s were sliding. The view being the reality of applications from the perspective of an enterprise application person. I grew up in the world of how can we build a better mousetrap. If you build it, they will come. Suddenly in 2007, the world changed. Apple changed the software world forever. The first thing was making a mobile application “cool.” But the thing that most people don’t recall is that before the iTunes store, most applications started at 19.99. That was the reality we lived in and built towards. Suddenly applications cost a dollar.
At first, it was easy to make fun of the new software world. Angry Birds was the application that was exploding. “It’s a game” we would say. But it wasn’t just a game. It was the iPhone’s camera. It was the iTunes store. From there it was wi-fi in Starbucks. It was the big telecom companies offering wifi everywhere they had hotspots. It was free wifi in airports. It was cell phones that suddenly had batteries that lasted 5 6 and even 8 hours of daily use. Today I use my phones, between 4,5 hours to talking time most days. That was the game changer that started in 2007. Steve Jobs is standing on stage saying you won’t believe this new thing we’ve done. Style, which is what Apple sold for years, was suddenly cool again.
When I stopped being an Apple Computer user in 1996, I changed camps. Back in the 1980s, it was two camps: Pc users that believed in the Microsoft model of cheap hardware and expensive software ( ½ by the by of the overall cloud concept). The Apple world was cheaper software (although not as much as it would be later) and expensive hardware. Macs are still more expensive overall than a comparable PC. By 2011 when I returned to the Apple world, things had changed. Apple was still the style company, it was still more expensive to get the hardware, but suddenly the software wasn’t as expensive. Apple was also the media company with the iTunes, iPod combination. But the huge game changer was the reduced cost of software.
The evolution fo the market continues, the change in how people interact with devices continues to evolve!
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Do you own software that costs more than 19.99?
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Yes
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No
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Do you have more than 10 applications on your cell phone you use?
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Yes
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No
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Does your cell phone have a GPS?
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Yes
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No
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I refuse to use a platform with proprietary hardware
Considering that you are a digital artist, and that you are saying that about Apple I am impressed.
IMHO, there are way more art apps for PC than there are for the Mac, so I’d be running PC even if the hardware cost the same…
I would suspect you are right on the estimate. It is just traditionally artists have leaned towards apple. 🙂
I know, yet I have no clue why. Perhaps artists are traditionally disinclined to tinker with hardware?
I suspect you’ve hit the nail on the head. Less focused on what is used and more on what is created.
Performance is critical for me, even a few wasted clock cycles adds up over millions of iterations…
I have never used an Apple device even though I often want it. Somehow, from several choices always fall on other brands when making a purchase.
THere is nothing wrong with that. Apple tends to be more expensive. Once they have you, they have you!!!!
As I recall, when it comes to cell phones the reason is size. I prefer devices with a wider screen… but maybe I was wrong…
Apple is finally catching up with wide screen phones, i can understand that. The new XS has a very nice easily read screen.
Yup. As far as I know, since the iPhone X, it has a screen width of more than 5″
It does, I like mine a lot, but I have lots of audible books, movies and need more storage.
Then you have replaced it with New XS.
yes. I often end up in places in DC where there is well, a reason for no cellular signal. Its blocked! Based on that I like to be able to take a break and relax for a couple of minutes, with either my music or a book (audible). They have to be on the device, there is no connection outside the building allowed.
I see a strong reason for your explanation. I just found out that there is no connection outside the building in DC.
yup. Sitting there waiting you have to have something to do!
I do have GPS on my phone but I turn it off when out and about so I can’t be tracked. 🙂
You turn off the GPS or you turn off location services? They are actually different and the actual GPS is very hard to turn off.
Location services is what I turn off.
Just to be clear, the GPS chipset on the phone is still powered on and active, it is just not trying to publish where you are right now.
I need to have GPS this is one of the reasons why I buy a smart phone.
I can understand that. Although I remember when a smart phone didn’t have GPS, it just meant you could connect to your email and the internet!
Yes true so it should have internet as well. I chose a phone with GPS, I don’t need email in phone I have it in my laptop.
Once upon a time remote mobile access to email was the most important thing. Not so much anymore!
So true when there are no skype, viber and line yet.
Oh when we started it was get email on your phone. The moiblilty that people have today took us years to implement.
mobility and laziness maybe. but still I don’t open my emails to phone, if there is an urgent for me, I will be receiving it on one of the messengers.
I understand the urgency issue. The various messengers do a good job for that. I prefer signal as it provides encrypted communication.