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Power User definition

Posted Feb 13, 2012 15:36 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)
In reply to: Power User definition by drago01
Parent article: Day: A New Approach to GNOME Application Design

> Tablets are not any "changes" they are new toys / tools.

I must not understand... This sentence appears to be contradictory. New tools ARE change, are they not?

> People don't replace anything with tablets

Flight manuals: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-13/u-s-air-force...
Cash Registers: http://allthingsd.com/20110823/apples-ipad-already-replac...
Text Books: http://www.inquisitr.com/138739/ipad-replacing-many-textb...
Medical Devices: http://www.padgadget.com/2012/02/08/medical-industry-fast...
etc. etc. etc.

> That's the only point that is true here but the marketing and media hype seems to be stronger then peoples resistance to changes.

That's an amazingly cynical attitude. Marketing is NOT the reason the smart phone succeeded.


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