So, what is it with these tablets? I'm, of course, talking about the kind that you can look silly while talking into and as you type awkwardly on. Why do people even bother to buy them? How are people being conned into buying more and more of them each year - especially considering the fact that the newer ones aren't that much of an improvement over their previous versions?
The current trends show that there are more people buying tablets and that it is a trend that is set to continue rising over the coming years.
But, I (and many people out there) just don't get the point. We, laptop-lovers, just don't get the point.
They said that the desktop would eventually die out and that the laptop was going to be man's savior. And yet, although most people that are into gadgets, or have to work on the go, own a laptop, chances are they also own clumsy computers at home or in the office, and they still love working on them.
The operating systems might have changed or been upgraded, the monitors might have grown slimmer (but that's just to keep up with the times of "leaner is better", and has got nothing much to do with the actual performance), the casing might look sexier... but they are still around and used quite often. They might say sales for desktops have slumped, but that is just because those workhorses last forever.
For anyone that takes working on a computer seriously, (think writers, coders and freelancers in general) toting around a laptop as a backup plan to get some work done while on the go, is more than enough. What, with cloud storage available for free, there is a seamless integration between the world of the PC and that of the laptop - making the use of intermediate devices, like thumb drives, redundant.
Now, let's look at the impracticality of the tablet and see how it compares with a laptop and the good old desktop.
If you're going to use it as a phone, then why don't you simply use Skype on your laptop? (Who doesn't have Skype these days?) Why do you have to hold up that awkwardly sized slab up to your ear? It's just unsightly and, when you think of the size of the phones they have these days, quite stupid-looking.
Has anyone tried working on a tablet? Seriously, anyone seeing people trying to type on those things can see the absurdity. The keyboard is so tiny and the keys are minuscule. Anyone with even an average-sized finger girth will find it a challenge to type a single word without having to press the backspace button, at least, twice.
With the obesity issues that the world is facing, it is a problem that will become even more common unless we are forced to stop eating because we have to send messages.
An average laptop, once fully charged, can be expected to work for at least 3 hours. This is with the music playing, the word processor and spreadsheet programs running and a movie on pause in the background. Try that with a tablet and one of two things will happen: one is that nothing will work and the owner will be cursing at it trying to unfreeze it all or, two, the battery will drain so fast it will entail a mad dash to the nearest power outlet.
And oh, another thing, has anyone noticed that the person with the "latest" tablet is the one with the least use for it? Of the, say, 100 functions and applications that are installed in it, the average user will only know how to work on punching the dial pad to call a number or look for it in the address book, or play that annoying game with birds and too much colors in it.
That's it: hundreds of dollars spent on what is basically a phone with a slightly bigger screen for aiming feathered projectiles.
The others, that do know how to use the remaining 98.9% of apps in the tablet, either work for the companies that produce them or are geeks who just want to own the darn things because they are just too curious to let an opportunity for experimenting with a new toy pass them by.
So, advice to tablet owners, especially the ones that own the "extra long" ones (overcompensating, are we?):
- You look like a douche when you try to look cool while talking with the thing held up to your ear. You look the same way when you try to talk into it held in front of your face. Same thing when you're using an earphone. Get a phone!
- You look like a douche when you try to type something into your tablet. You just know and we - sitting across from you - also know, that the key that you are pressing over and over again is the backspace key and not an "e" - the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet. Get a laptop if you want to work on the move!
- That serious look you've got on your face while you are pretending to be working on your slab? We know it isn't because you are hard at work. You still look like a douche, only we know that you are playing a strangely colored game that your 5 year-old-daughter could master in minutes. Stop pretending you know anything worth knowing on the darn thing!
- Chances are, for every hour you spend on that thing, you waste two just standing by or looking for, a power source. If you were to put as much energy into looking for ways to make a better place instead of trying to drain your energy to fill a bottomless void, we would all have a world where douches didn't bother us as much.
Besides, doesn't it look cool to have a fancy backpack with a well used laptop inside it thrown over your shoulder? Don't you feel like you own the world and can control it from the keys on your laptop when you actually work on it?
Well, you wouldn't know that, now would you? Or your tablet wouldn't have been an issue, right?
Get a phone or a laptop - make up your mind!
The current trends show that there are more people buying tablets and that it is a trend that is set to continue rising over the coming years.
But, I (and many people out there) just don't get the point. We, laptop-lovers, just don't get the point.
They said that the desktop would eventually die out and that the laptop was going to be man's savior. And yet, although most people that are into gadgets, or have to work on the go, own a laptop, chances are they also own clumsy computers at home or in the office, and they still love working on them.
The operating systems might have changed or been upgraded, the monitors might have grown slimmer (but that's just to keep up with the times of "leaner is better", and has got nothing much to do with the actual performance), the casing might look sexier... but they are still around and used quite often. They might say sales for desktops have slumped, but that is just because those workhorses last forever.
For anyone that takes working on a computer seriously, (think writers, coders and freelancers in general) toting around a laptop as a backup plan to get some work done while on the go, is more than enough. What, with cloud storage available for free, there is a seamless integration between the world of the PC and that of the laptop - making the use of intermediate devices, like thumb drives, redundant.
Now, let's look at the impracticality of the tablet and see how it compares with a laptop and the good old desktop.
If you're going to use it as a phone, then why don't you simply use Skype on your laptop? (Who doesn't have Skype these days?) Why do you have to hold up that awkwardly sized slab up to your ear? It's just unsightly and, when you think of the size of the phones they have these days, quite stupid-looking.
Has anyone tried working on a tablet? Seriously, anyone seeing people trying to type on those things can see the absurdity. The keyboard is so tiny and the keys are minuscule. Anyone with even an average-sized finger girth will find it a challenge to type a single word without having to press the backspace button, at least, twice.
With the obesity issues that the world is facing, it is a problem that will become even more common unless we are forced to stop eating because we have to send messages.
An average laptop, once fully charged, can be expected to work for at least 3 hours. This is with the music playing, the word processor and spreadsheet programs running and a movie on pause in the background. Try that with a tablet and one of two things will happen: one is that nothing will work and the owner will be cursing at it trying to unfreeze it all or, two, the battery will drain so fast it will entail a mad dash to the nearest power outlet.
And oh, another thing, has anyone noticed that the person with the "latest" tablet is the one with the least use for it? Of the, say, 100 functions and applications that are installed in it, the average user will only know how to work on punching the dial pad to call a number or look for it in the address book, or play that annoying game with birds and too much colors in it.
That's it: hundreds of dollars spent on what is basically a phone with a slightly bigger screen for aiming feathered projectiles.
The others, that do know how to use the remaining 98.9% of apps in the tablet, either work for the companies that produce them or are geeks who just want to own the darn things because they are just too curious to let an opportunity for experimenting with a new toy pass them by.
So, advice to tablet owners, especially the ones that own the "extra long" ones (overcompensating, are we?):
- You look like a douche when you try to look cool while talking with the thing held up to your ear. You look the same way when you try to talk into it held in front of your face. Same thing when you're using an earphone. Get a phone!
- You look like a douche when you try to type something into your tablet. You just know and we - sitting across from you - also know, that the key that you are pressing over and over again is the backspace key and not an "e" - the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet. Get a laptop if you want to work on the move!
- That serious look you've got on your face while you are pretending to be working on your slab? We know it isn't because you are hard at work. You still look like a douche, only we know that you are playing a strangely colored game that your 5 year-old-daughter could master in minutes. Stop pretending you know anything worth knowing on the darn thing!
- Chances are, for every hour you spend on that thing, you waste two just standing by or looking for, a power source. If you were to put as much energy into looking for ways to make a better place instead of trying to drain your energy to fill a bottomless void, we would all have a world where douches didn't bother us as much.
Besides, doesn't it look cool to have a fancy backpack with a well used laptop inside it thrown over your shoulder? Don't you feel like you own the world and can control it from the keys on your laptop when you actually work on it?
Well, you wouldn't know that, now would you? Or your tablet wouldn't have been an issue, right?
Get a phone or a laptop - make up your mind!
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