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Is the iPhone 6s Plus 128GB an optimal replacement for your laptop?
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Until you read this report: U.S. Nuclear System Relies On Outdated Technology Such As Floppy Disks
And realize that any old Apple device would be an upgrade from an aging IBM Series/1!
Only another laptop could replace my laptop. No phone or iPad can do what a laptop can.
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There is still a company out there that collects floppy disks to sell to companies that still use them.
Agree that OS X is way more capable. I simply can't do the same things on my phone.
Neither. The 6s plus is closer in size to the se than to the ipad mini so it's not even an ipad replacement. That's without even getting to the part of ios not replacing a laptop os so no on the ipad pro also.
If a phone operating system, ios or android, can replace your laptop then you really never needed a laptop.
If a phone operating system, ios or android, can replace your laptop then you really never needed a laptop.
True, or... the "phone operating system" has evolved to the point where it can replace the function that the laptop previously performed, for some number of people.
A similar story is playing out with digital cameras. For the average person, the "toy" smartphone camera evolved to the point where it replaced the traditional camera. Ask Canon and Nikon how that's going.
Not quite yet. Photo editing, video editing/rendering, office, etc., etc., while part of that can be done somewhat on ios it's not remotely the same as on osx or windows and has a long way to go. Evolving to osx like and evolving to make hardly difference at all are two different things. Photo editing, office, is kind of a simplistic extention of the osx counterpart. I do photo editing, video editing and have a subscription to office. Not even close in any of those. Anyone that can get by solely on the ios apps as they are even now never needed a laptop. Not saying it won't as it probably will some day, just that as of now the evolution is still closer to what it was several years ago than to laptops.
The camera has nothing at all to do with it and apples to oranges but since you want to bring it up my dslr is a camera, phones still have toy cameras. I think the toy phone camera filled a spot for people where they do not normally have a camera with them. A dslr is for taking pictures for functions, etc. Anyone that takes an iphone to take wedding, baptism, first communion, etc. pictures is not serious. Pic's at the beach? Sure, but MOST people never had cameras with them for stuff like this before phones. There are 5 of us here with phones, iphone and android, and up against my dslr they all look like toy cameras.......which is fine for casual areas where you would not normally have a camera otherwise.
Will they some day take the place of cameras? Maybe but there is still a long way to go.
As for the future the camera companies would be smart to work with phone companies making the cameras and lenses.
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Huh? Please read my post again. I said "for some number of people". It's already happened.
The rest of your post is a straw man argument. No one said anything about equality with OSX or dslrs or anything else.
What you don't understand is that iOS equaling the form and functionality of OSX would be problematic. That do-everything approach, bulk, resource usage, and interface is the problem in my view. I have no doubt a "video editor" or "wedding photographer" will disagree with me, and that's ok.
Straw man argument? Like your phone camera was? What blather. Happened for some? Clearly, those that never needed a laptop. Pretty much everything tablets and phones do now they have already been doing.
Oh I do understand that, what you don't understand is that you think far too much of yourself and your opinion.
You act like cheap phone cameras are killing companies like Nikon, I say they will not.
I have no doubt I will be reading no more of your posts and that's OK. Have a nice life admiring yourself.
Problem solved already.
"Last week, Nikon published the financial results for its fiscal year, ending on March 31st, 2015. According to the numbers, Nikon’s sales are down 14.5% and profits 11.8%, reportedly due to ‘delayed market recovery,’ mainly in Europe and China.
Leading the loss in sales and profits was, predictably, Nikon’s compact camera systems, down 31% in sales year over year. However, it wasn’t just compact cameras that brought the numbers down.
Nikon reported 4.61 million camera systems sold, 1.14 million less than the previous year. Additionally, sales of interchangeable lenses dropped from 8.23 million to 6.68 million, a decrease of 19%." (Regarding Nikon's 2015 earnings report)
Nikon reported 4.61 million camera systems sold, 1.14 million less than the previous year. Additionally, sales of interchangeable lenses dropped from 8.23 million to 6.68 million, a decrease of 19%." (Regarding Nikon's 2015 earnings report)
If this is your proof that nikon is going under it failed.
Apple is also down, most companies are down right now. Doesn't mean either apple or Nikon is going under.
People said nikon would go under when digital camera's came in, I was a long time 35mm nikon user before digital's (early 70's my first slr), but it didn't happen. They adapted just like they will adapt now. Apple has adapted and is expanding into other areas.
Also, a digital camera is something one does not upgrade every year and some many years. When they were evolving a lot quicker people did upgrade more as there was something new and improved every year, that has balanced out and is bound to decrease in sales. I think that is a good part of it.
I use mine when I do not plan on taking any pictures, just snap something out and about. I would NEVER even depend on a phone to take planned pic's.
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