{"id":517583,"date":"2010-04-05T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5587346.post-6207418095254895065"},"modified":"2010-04-05T22:34:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T02:34:24","slug":"tech-churn-cameras-yes-but-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517583","title":{"rendered":"Tech churn:  Cameras yes, but laptops?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Until I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/superamit.tumblr.com\/post\/492401109\/im-calling-it-now-the-laptop-starts-dying\">this graphic<\/a> I thought the compact, point and shoot, camera was doing just fine.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Right. Of course. My iPhone 3G isn&#8217;t good enough to replace a point and shoot, but my June 2010 iPhone will. I haven&#8217;t been paying attention.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>That&#8217;s tech churn. From nowhere to everywhere to nowhere in no time at all. Reminds me of books on CD. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So is Amit Gupta right that the iPad has made the laptop obsolete? I don&#8217;t think so. A good laptop is much closer to a desktop than a Point &amp; Shoot camera is to a DSLR; there&#8217;s room for both in the &#8220;pro and enthusiast&#8221; market. I do agree that specialty OSs such as ChromeOS and iPhoneOS will dominate the &#8220;everyday use&#8221; end of the market. The form factor is, however, less critical than the usability, security, business model and low operating costs of these next generation environments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Remember too that, when the market demands it, an iPhone will support a keyboard and external monitor. Then you have a phone and a laptop &#8230;<\/div>\n<p><small><\/small><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5587346-6207418095254895065?l=notes.kateva.org' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until I saw this graphic I thought the compact, point and shoot, camera was doing just fine. Right. Of course. My iPhone 3G isn&#8217;t good enough to replace a point and shoot, but my June 2010 iPhone will. I haven&#8217;t been paying attention. That&#8217;s tech churn. From nowhere to everywhere to nowhere in no time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":711,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/711"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}