Noticed how design conscious Dell has become of late? Their forthcoming smartphones are an example of design. But, yes, Dell are commodity brokers too.
By the way, both these companies, Apple/Dell have computers cobbled together for them by manufacturers and assembly plants in China.
What distinguishes Apple from Dell is software and cheeky profit margins.
It's amusing that you would think that Apple is a commodity "broker". You know what broker means?
I believe the two are different sides of the same coin.
With the iPad, it's just a matter of plugging into the dock or pairing with a bluetooth keyboard.
Other touchscreen mobile os's based on Linux (similar enough), often come on devices with slide-out keyboards, i.e. Palm Pre, Nokia N900, Motorola Droid...
I think it's just a matter of having the software keyboard designed well enough for use on-the-go, but to hide it when a hardware keyboard becomes available.
In either case, neither the iPad, nor the devices i've listed above support the use of mouse. So the objective of a portable OS is to make touchscreen use as painless and logical as possible, and compensate for the lack of keyboard when one is not attached.
Such an os can even be scaled up for kiosk-type use, with hardware such as a reasonably large screen (17") and more powerful processor
Dan
We can compare this to Win 7 devices that are coming out now. One of the first is the Archos 9, reviewed here:
It's amusing that you would think that Apple is a commodity "broker". You know what broker means?
The industrial revolution has a history, Read Marx. I was using commodity and broker in their widest sense. All component parts of a computer can be regarded as commodities and anyone who buys and sells commodities can be regarded as a broker.
Look how much controversy Apple causes each year with the amount of NAND Flash it acquires (Oh, that's a commodity, too).
True, they may add a certain value to it by using human labour as a commodity. But they still end up brokering it.
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Noticed how design conscious Dell has become of late? Their forthcoming smartphones are an example of design. But, yes, Dell are commodity brokers too.
By the way, both these companies, Apple/Dell have computers cobbled together for them by manufacturers and assembly plants in China.
What distinguishes Apple from Dell is software and cheeky profit margins.
It's amusing that you would think that Apple is a commodity "broker". You know what broker means?
I believe the two are different sides of the same coin.
With the iPad, it's just a matter of plugging into the dock or pairing with a bluetooth keyboard.
Other touchscreen mobile os's based on Linux (similar enough), often come on devices with slide-out keyboards, i.e. Palm Pre, Nokia N900, Motorola Droid...
I think it's just a matter of having the software keyboard designed well enough for use on-the-go, but to hide it when a hardware keyboard becomes available.
In either case, neither the iPad, nor the devices i've listed above support the use of mouse. So the objective of a portable OS is to make touchscreen use as painless and logical as possible, and compensate for the lack of keyboard when one is not attached.
Such an os can even be scaled up for kiosk-type use, with hardware such as a reasonably large screen (17") and more powerful processor
Dan
We can compare this to Win 7 devices that are coming out now. One of the first is the Archos 9, reviewed here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Review....html?x=0&.v=1
The GUI's of the OS's are different enough that they will function very differently.
It's amusing that you would think that Apple is a commodity "broker". You know what broker means?
The industrial revolution has a history, Read Marx. I was using commodity and broker in their widest sense. All component parts of a computer can be regarded as commodities and anyone who buys and sells commodities can be regarded as a broker.
Look how much controversy Apple causes each year with the amount of NAND Flash it acquires (Oh, that's a commodity, too).
True, they may add a certain value to it by using human labour as a commodity. But they still end up brokering it.