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Eric_WVGG said:

naysayers: Moleskine sells boatloads of sketchbooks that are about the same size as iPhone +'s. It's not too small to draw on.

And folks draw on them with normal-size pens; Apple Pencil is fine as is.

Still praying for an iPad Mini w/ Pencil support.

I wouldn’t use one but to me it’s not the writing with the Apple pen but keeping up with it. An iPad isn’t too bad because I have a case that carries it. I don’t expect to put my iPad in my pocket; however, with my iPhone, I DO. The pencil would fit but surely be damaged sitting down. 

sflocal said:

evilution said:

ericthehalfbee said:

If you don’t see the value in Office 365 then you’ve never done a cost analysis comparison with Office 365 and regular Office. Or you live in Bizzaro World and have a very specific use-case where paying almost the same price and getting less makes sense.

I suspect that most people could do the same stuff in Office 95 as what they do in Office 365. Apart from being a bit more polished and a money grab, I don’t see the difference. Office software doesn’t change enough that it needs regular updates. I bet a company could easily run in excess of 5 years with the same office software.

Our office had, and resulted in major headaches and painful incompatibilities with the rest of the world.

Office 365 and adobe’s creative suite ARE perfect examples of subscriptions that work.  If your shop depends on being at the same level as everyone else, it makes great sense and is FAR cheaper than the perpetual license and the headaches of falling behind.

im referring to professionals and business cases.  Individuals that use it casually, maybe not so.

Office 95 is an extreme example but the point is basically the same. The only reason I have 365 installed on my Mac and windows desktop is because I can piggy back on my work and college accounts. Before that (still on my Mac windows partition) I used Office 2010, the only major difference is in UI and I prefer 2010. There are a couple of extra charts and such but not sure I see a big difference. As long as you are 2007 (docx) and newer, there is really not a need to upgrade often. If I ever work for a company without office 365, I’ll reload 2010 with any compatibility tools necessary. It will work just fine.

One draw back to the latest and greatest is the software compatility issues. I had tools that would only work with 2010 at my previous job. When 2013 was installed, they left 2010, so I would have to open 2010 to run some of the utilities we used. My point is the software issues run both ways. I’m sure the companies will learn to keep up with Microsoft much more consistently though. 

I see a problem with this idea. To view the passport, you will unlock your phone, breaking your security measures. You are forced to identify yourself with your phone and risking the phone being confiscated without a security measure. Further, don’t forget software and battery concerns, I will stick to the old fashion method on this one. No battery, no software, always works unless stolen. 

across04 said:

WebOS was actually very good. It was deployed on flawed hardware. If they had introduced this on a "slab" phone, it could have been a big hit.

Agreed. The software was probably better that iOS at the time, minus the apps. The multitasking on the iPhone seems to take after WebOS. 

I like to think Samsung makes good hardware, including their smartphones. I had an S7 for work, great hardware. The software was OK for about 4-5 months, then it was just horrific. Terrible battery life (after limiting a lot of settings), had gmail consume 5GB in a couple days despite the fact I never used it, the list goes on..... iOS just works too well to consider a Samsung Android product.