Sunday, November 2nd, 2019

    Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone (Re: Jirka)
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I don't usually phost replies to  Mastodon toots, but this time I have
to. Jirka made there a short  survey, about what kind of device people
use as their main computer.

It came out (or at least that are the numbers right now) that just one
person  out  of twenty  five  considers  a  tablet  to be  their  main
computer, and the rest is  divided roughly fifty-fifty between desktop
and  laptop hardware.  Nobody considers  smartphone to  be their  main
computer.

This was a bit surprise and not just for Jirka. The world around us is
full of the  "post-PC era" bullshit and when you  ask people, they are
still knee-deep in the past (I hope people understand irony, when they
see it). Why so?

Well, I have to add two points to the debate:

1. I  spend more time  on my  smartphone than on  any of my  laptop or
desktop computers. Simply the family doesn't allow me to sit behind my
desk for long enough time period  to actually do anything useful, so I
don't do  it most days. But  still even though  I do many tasks  on my
smartphone while  commuting or during day,  I don't consider it  to be
myvmain computer or  even computer at all. It's simply  a phone, I can
do my email on it as a bonus, browse the web or even Gopher, listen to
music, but  it's galaxy  away from  the environment  I need  to create
anything, being it code or meaningful text.

2. When I use laptop for  something useful, it's always in the docking
station, with proper mechanical keyboard, mouse and 24" LCD. If I ever
used tablet for the same kind of work, it would be again this way. And
if I had to do it on my phone, it would be exactly like that. So would
it then be desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile?
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