Author: Munro Stewart

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Why People Will Buy Tablets

💻 Tech • 📁 Tech Plans

This is a respone to an article titled 'The world doesn't need an Apple tablet, or any other', by Joe Wilcox of BetaNews.

It's an interesting article where he basically states that tablet computers can't become as popular as PCs, laptops, mp3 players, and smartphones, because it is a niche product and is too much of a middle product between laptops and smartphones. He has some interesting points. Tablets have definitely had trouble becoming mainstream devices and part of that problem has been overlapping market segments and the fact people may not buy four separate computers including a desktop, laptop, tablet, and phone.

I disagree with his article though. The main reason that I believe tablets will succeed and become popular is because I think they will replace laptops for regular users. It's that simple. Eventually, a typical home user will have a desktop all in one computer, a tablet portable computer, and a mobile smartphone. They may have only one or two of them. So the addressable market is anyone who currently owns a laptop or netbook. Below are some points answering some of the questions he poses. These advantages that a tablet has over a laptop and other reasons are why I think Apple's tablet and other tablets will replace laptops and netbooks.

One Good Point Is That Tablet Computers Won't Have A Keyboard

Not having a regular keyboard is the big issue and a really good point. It was the same argument with the iPhone and makes an even better argument for tablets trying to replace laptops. But while touchscreen typing isn't as quick as a physical keyboard I think it will be good enough for a lot of people to provide the other benefits that a tablet computer gives you over a laptop. Also it will be better than an iPhone, allowing for four, six, or eight finger typing. That was a weird sentence I know. Anyway, there will eventually be small wireless keyboards that you can take on longer trips that work with tablets for whenever you can get to a desk and stand your tablet up. Or you can sync and do your longer typing on your desktop. I will admit that I think that touchscreen tablets that also have a keyboard like a traditional laptop will be popular for quite awhile, but I do think the great form factor of a tablet will be extremely popular as well and will win over every day users who don't need to type long articles. Just as now the iPhones and iPod Touch are quite popular but so are Blackberry devices and the Palm Pre with a hardware keyboard.

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I Finally Created A Blog ⎯⎯⎯⎯

🙂 Hum • 📁 Hum Notes

Hello World! Welcome to my blog. I've wanted to create one for quite awhile and I've finally done it. I have no idea how long I'll keep it going or how much I'll write in here. But here are some of my reasons for creating the blog. This first post will be a good reminder to myself of why I want to write in this blog and what kind of things to write about.

Reasons I Created My Own Blog

1. To Write About My Goals

This is my main reason for creating this blog. I'm very into being organized, setting goals, and creating habits. I've read books like "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" and "Getting Things Done" that have helped me very much in my life. I've read a lot of articles on websites like Lifehack, Lifehacker, Zen Habits, and many others. I always keep lists and notes on my mobile computer, which used to be a Palm Z22 and is now an iPod Touch. I've reached some important goals in the last few years. Lately I've had a hard time getting motivated enough to work on an important goal. I keep reading about how one of the best habits you can get into besides creating the habit to spend time working towards the goal every day is to tell people about your goal or journal publicly about it. So I finally decided to make this blog so I can write publicly about my goals and the progress I'm making or not making. Hopefully writing about my goal will keep me thinking about it and motivated to achieve it.

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Don't Criticize Or Condemn

🌱 Life • 📁 Life Tips

"Don't criticize, condemn, or complain." - Dale Carnegie

  • Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself.
  • Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts his sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
  • Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them.
  • Let's try to figure out why they do what they do.
  • That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.
  • "To know all is to forgive all."

How To Win Friends And Influence People - Goodreads

Organize Documents By Type

🌱 Life • 📁 Life Tips

Simplify the amount of folders you use by organizing your documents into folders by type, and only creating albums, groupings, or project folders when necessary.

  • There are a million and one ways to arrange files and folders on disk.
  • Some might argue that spending a moment even thinking about it in the age of desktop search is unnecessary.
  • That may be true, but some semblance of order will clear your desktop and your mind and make you "ready for anything."
  • Over the years I've come up with a six folder structure for "My Documents" which I create on every computer I use without fail.
  • This scheme accommodates every file I might come across, keeps my desktop clear, smoothly fits in with an automated backup system and also makes command line file wrangling a breeze.

Geek To Live: Organizing my documents - Lifehacker

Only Technology That Benefits Society

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Each technology we create is transforming society and we need to be careful about considering if and when different technologies may be affecting us either negatively or positively.

  • A report commissioned by the National Science Foundation and made public today speculates that by the end of this century electronic information technology will have transformed American home, business, manufacturing, school, family and political life.
  • The report warned that the new technology would raise difficult issues of privacy and control that will have to be addressed soon to ''maximize its benefits and minimize its threats to society.''
  • There will be a shift away from conventional workplace and school socialization. Friends, peer groups and alliances will be determined electronically, creating classes of people based on interests and skills rather than age and social class.

Study Says Technology Could Transform Society - NY Times (1982)

Respect People Outside The Group

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People may often do inconsiderate things when they are in groups, and people who strongly affiliate with one group of people may naturally want to harm outsiders who are not in that group.

  • When people get together in groups, unusual things can happen — both good and bad.
  • Groups create important social institutions that an individual could not achieve alone, but there can be a darker side to such alliances:
  • Belonging to a group makes people more likely to harm others outside the group.
  • In a study that recently went online in the journal NeuroImage, the researchers measured brain activity in a part of the brain involved in thinking about oneself.
  • They found that in some people, this activity was reduced when the subjects participated in a competition as part of a group, compared with when they competed as individuals.
  • Those people were more likely to harm their competitors than people who did not exhibit this decreased brain activity.

When good people do bad things - MIT News Office

Find Peace Of Mind

🌱 Life • 📁 Life Tips

Are you looking for peace of mind? You won't find it in your status line. - Allen Stone

Are you looking for peace of mind?
You won't find it in your status line
What are you trying to prove?
Whose mountain are you trying to move?

Are you looking for security?
Validation or identity?
You won't find it in things
The more you got, oh, the less you see

Whatever keeps you occupied
Whatever gives you contact high
Whatever keeps you busy, baby
Will never make you satisfied

Contact High - Allen Stone - AZ Lyrics