Nokia & windows phone.

[Bob Williams]

PlaneMan wrote:

I’d have a long hard think about whether or not you NEED Windows. I don’t anymore. I’ve yet to find anything my Chrome/Android machine can’t do. Usually easier and cheaper than on Windows. My X220 is only used to do updates and check it’s working, only reason I have it still is I still sometimes get asked Windows questions but it’s mostly tv streaming and Android these days.

Food for thought Nolan. Pondering that, as I have got more involved with Android and Google nowadays. Transferring data and docs may be an issue.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[The Duke]

I still your it for work, but less and less. For pleasure almost never now. It just seems to get in the way.

If I had more time to game, I would.

[Ed P]

+1 on games + work. Those are M$’s areas of strength for Windows.

At this time, the Pi + python+Beautiful Soup makes it very easy for me to put together a PIM that covers my needs. That is a browser that switches between the major radio & TV channels, a scrolling RSS reader, and a weather outlook. With those plus an Android mail/phone/messages most of my daily PIM requirements are covered.

IF Andromeda can wrap all those into one, then it could be of interest as a single pocket-sized solution. M$ would however have to open up all their api’s to python to facilitate such a change and not charge a HUGE developer tax on their software.

[Tippon]

I’ve got three programs that *have* to use Windows, and I’ve barely used one of those this year.

Photoshop has hardly been used. Since Alice came along, I’m not getting the time and energy to get out with the camera, especially to late night gigs.

MediaMonkey is due to release version 5 sometime soon, and their next project is supposedly to go multi platform. They’ll probably take a few years to switch, but in all honesty, once I’ve finished properly organising my music collection, it will just be convenience that ties me to it.

My video organiser is Windows only, and probably will always be. The developer is a sole developer and is invested in Windows. It’s not a major problem, as I’ll always have my media on a separate machine anyway, it’s just a minor annoyance.

If one of the phone companies made a genuine ‘PC in your pocket’ that could either plug into a desktop or laptop base, I can see no reason why that wouldn’t be my next mobile. I almost went for the laptop dock recently, but didn’t end up going through with it.

[The Duke]

It’s already here, has been since the galaxy note 2. And had only got better.

If you off load your media to the cloud, and use cloud services. If you use a crome book, that’s basically what you do, so if you do that, or use your win pc as a server, a pc in your pocket is now viable.

It’s all about using your computing device like the old thin client days.

The more these services go go cloud based the easier and more viable the pc in your pocket is. As you just need a browser and a media player.

Not to mention if it’s android based (or Chrome that utilises android) you also have access to some fabulous editing apps, and the rest. So if you change your approach to club based storage, wether that be 3rd party or via a home server. You’ll be golden.

Years ago now I nuked my movie collection, I took years to build it, and I’m slowly re building for the car media server, (so a bit premature), however for 11 months out of a year, it’s simpler to stream media, wether that be music or video.

Photos, all mine have been going online for over 10 years. I upload to 3 mains service, (just for redundancy) and only ever save really social shots in raw on two usb drives and a hdd, incase I want to have the full options in the future. But on the whole I upload in full size jpg only.

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