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Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop?

From rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop?
Date 2015-04-03 00:19 -0400
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On 4/2/2015 9:27 PM, Elizabeth D. Rather wrote:
> On 4/2/15 2:29 PM, rickman wrote:
>> On 4/2/2015 8:04 PM, Jason Damisch wrote:
>>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 3:11:23 PM UTC-7, Elizabeth D. Rather
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Busnesses still like desktops for their staff because they're less
>>>> likely to walk away.
>>>
>>> LOL
>>>
>>> And its kinda hard to type fast on a little touchscreen.
>>
>> Waiters and waitresses seem to handle it.  Also I am often checked out
>> on a tablet running the Square I believe.  I'm a bit surprised actually
>> just how fast the tablets have shown up in retail uses.
>
> Waiters use an app that lets them tap a square for the item being
> ordered, without much typing. Other tablet apps are similar. Uses that
> require a lot of typing still benefit from having a keyboard and a big
> screen.

Isn't that pretty irrelevant?  The point is that they use one desktop in 
the office and everyone else has their own wifi tablet to do what they 
need to do.  N tablets to one desktop.

-- 

Rick

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Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? visualforth@rocketmail.com - 2015-04-02 11:46 -0700
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 15:04 -0400
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-03 00:36 -0400
      Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:46 -0400
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 12:09 -0700
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 12:48 -0700
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 18:08 -0400
      Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-02 12:11 -1000
        Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 17:04 -0700
          Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-02 20:29 -0400
            Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 17:47 -0700
            Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-02 15:27 -1000
              Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:19 -0400
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2015-04-02 18:35 -1000
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:45 -0400
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-02 23:56 -0700
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 04:07 -0400
                Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2015-04-03 08:44 +0000
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? "Rod Pemberton" <bork@lllljunkqwer.cpm> - 2015-04-03 00:37 -0400
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? hughaguilar96@gmail.com - 2015-04-02 21:46 -0700
      Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? Michael Barry <barrym95838@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-02 22:18 -0700
    Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 00:49 -0400
  Re: Hardware: Does anyone still need a desktop? polymorph self <jackvanc3@gmail.com> - 2015-04-03 17:39 -0700

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