Microsoft’s Windows Phone president Andy Lees at the Worldwide Partners Conference once again tried to shoot down hopes for tablets based on Windows Phone 7. The use of the mobile OS would be “in conflict” with Microsoft’s notion of having the full speed of a computer in any design, including truly mobile tablets. He insisted that users would want to do PC-style activities on a tablet and saw Windows 8’s networking and printing support as being important.
“We view a tablet as a PC,” Lees said.
Microsoft is making a bet that technology (more specifically, how people use technology) won’t change. I’ll gladly take the other side of that bet.
(via DF)
“Keep in mind that Apple’s penalty for losing the PC war in the 1990s is that it is now the most profitable PC maker in the world.”
The most mystical benefit of writing is the way a page or screen becomes a medium through which my mind communicates with itself. The unintentional symbolism strikes me the most — the way certain thoughts have to leave my body, then re-enter before they can be realized.
It’s almost as if the full potential of human mind can’t happen absent writing.
Wonder who this fly on my wall could be.
