Re:Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
by raganwald on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @12:35PM
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Odd, but I see business users as having more in common with Eric's "Mom" than with hackers. There are jillions of custom business apps that don't give people files to manipulate: There's a client app or a web page and a database on a server somewhere stores the data. Salespeople and customer service reps and what-not just use the apps just as an iPad owner might 'just use' a program.
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Re:Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
by pyre on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @02:42PM
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I think that point is that those apps already exist and need to run on PCs. Porting them over the 'simpler' devices takes time and money that most businesses won't be eager to spend.
Re:Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
by derefr on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @11:34PM
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But they already have existing PCs to run that existing software. We are, I think, talking about new businesses that have a choice—of course those that have locked themselves into a paradigm will still be locked in when a new one is invented.