Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:12:27 -0400 Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Re: Technology Marches On ! From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com> To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com Cc: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Mike B. <yahoo at omniphile.com> wrote: > > On 4/14/2013 8:56 AM, Michael Walsh wrote: > > http://i.imgur.com/nuUGHaY.jpg > > Pretty close on all but the laptop. While the phone probably has a more > powerful processor than that particular laptop has, the software it is > running is aimed at users running simple apps, not programmers or more > capable applications, and the screen size is too small for many uses > anyway. Yes, you can read e-mail and check the price of something in a > store, but try designing a kitchen, writing one of those simple apps, or > even a novel on it and the deficiencies appear instantly. Indeed. It's more of all the things wrapped up in one package that I find fascinating. Granted, that one package really doesn't all of those things all that well, but using our wonderful imagination ... who knows what the future holds. I recall sometime ago asking in regards to art shows and the requirement that cameras be checked "What about cell phones" and now one has the ability to quickly take a "photo" of a piece of art and put it on a website fairly quickly. And the image will be reasonably good. Look out future, here we come! mjw