EVE General Discussion

The biggest mistake people make when they buy a tablet is thinking that they are just buying another computer.

They keep the tablet for a few months and then either abandon or sell it because they aren't using it because it doesn't do things as well as their regular computer does and they don't do any computing in a place where their regular computer(s) aren't available.

Looking at the average schedule, people are:
1) At Home
2) Driving
3) At Work
4) Socialising

The only time (the average) people ever use a tablet is when waiting for one of the above things to happen where they don't have access to a regular PC. (And even then, only where their smart phone isn't sufficient.)

So yes, unless you have a specific reason to buy and use a tablet, they aren't going to revolutionise your life. People at home are going to use their more powerful desktop over their tablet. Microsoft and Apple certainly believe this is true which is why they are trying to integrate their desktop and mobile operating systems, so that the transition between mobile and desktop devices is seemless.

Where you will see more tablets is in the workforce, in places where computers have been infeasable before. Foremen on building sites, factory shift leaders and other 'in the field' supervisory roles go crazy for these things. I wonder how many of them are playing EVE.

There are reasonable conclusions that can be drawn from the mobile data that we have. We can tell that people really like surfing the web on iPads and Android phones. We can tell that only a very small number of people give a flying fucknut about flash. We can tell that if you give a user an easier and simpler way to do something, the user will take that option.

You are suggesting that everything will eventually be simpler and easier to the point that "there's an app for that." This is not the case. Some things will never be a better user experience on a tablet than they are with a desktop or laptop. Like, for example, developing the software that runs on tablets on phones.

Regardless of my use or yours individually, I can guarantee you one thing: the more apps are being made for mobile devices, the more traditional PCs are being sold to build them with. We may get to a place where it's only devs and nerds and idiots like me who buy desktops, but that class of people is growing at the same rate as the apps that are being created. I don't want to talk about professions where desktops and laptops are a necessity for certain purposes. I don't have data on that. But I bet it's an even bigger market than the app developer market.

that's a grand in video cards alone, brah

I've heard these words for decades.

Ageck, are you a game developer? What's your occupation? What makes you think that Valve's opinion is so important? Have you heard something from Activision? EA? Maybe -- omg -- Zynga? No? As i thought.

I don't wanna insult you. But as a game developer i can't see any sense in your thoughts.
Portable devices are just... another market segment. That's all.

Linux is already the world's most popular OS, thanks largely to Google/Android. That ship already sailed. Linux doesn't need to dominate the PC market, because PCs will no longer matter to anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaT9Z2zxPu0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Start at 48:50.

here's how else I know the tablet EVE thing isn't so great--

I played EVE on my Wacom Cintiq; the art tablet with the LED display and pen input...

even with the accuracy of a pinpoint pen stylus, it's faster with a mouse and keyboard shortcuts.

Well, what it can't do is make money. That's kind of a bad thing for a technology.

But here's a fun twist: Combine all linux, android, and all macOS devices and you can quite easily say that *nix has taken over all of the world's computing. By a huge margin.

Do you see what I did there? I aggregated a bunch of unrelated technologies into a single group and claimed that has already made other technologies irrelevant. That's what you're doing, and it's stupid. So you should stop. Or write articles that get aggregated by Google News. You could have a future there.

Sir, thou hath engaged me in an excellent game of troll and trickethed me into having had to pretend I was engageningeth in a serious discussion. Well played. 10/10. And I hope to see you soon in a spaceship.

It sounds like you really want to believe what you're saying, and there's a bit of cognitive dissonance at work when you see evidence to the contrary, and so to solve that uneasy feeling that you might be wrong, you dismiss the evidence as "faked".

Madame, thou hast spoken well and truly. Trolled, we all are. By a miscreant and a devil.