Comments | raptorck: Why convergence sucks

raptorck

Why convergence sucks

Jan 07, 2008 16:16

Every so often, I have the urge to rant, nay, outright bitch about the current state of technology. This is one of those days. I've had more than my fair share of gadgets, as most people realize, and at the end of the day, each and every one of them sucked, usually for all the same reasons: The software.

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twotone January 7 2008, 22:20:51 UTC

I was skimming my friends list and briefly incredibly confused as to why you were bitching about a goth festival.

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raptorck January 8 2008, 01:47:09 UTC

a) Eh. It's mostly a lot of work to keep things afloat because they won't pay up for a proper staffing level.

b) I don't advise using much beyond a GPS while driving, but I do that on the bike, so you may have a little more leeway.

c) Ask Spellos.

d) There are tons of PDAs, but data service is usually king here. HTC makes the Advantage, which is really slick for a WinMo device, but Windows Mobile just has too many compromises.

e) You may be able to give one of the upcoming Linux-based MIDs a shot, depending on what you need to run, but I'd really advise a test drive.

f) It's still a terrifying amount of stuff to maintain.

obsequiosity January 8 2008, 12:12:20 UTC

I have been fascinated that YouTube has yet to be replaced by a service that is either faster, higher quality, or both. They took an old creaky codec and spliced it into a Flash interface. And we all seem content just to mess around with that.

negrondevice January 8 2008, 18:35:43 UTC

Ditto man. D-I-T-T-O ( ... )

raptorck January 8 2008, 19:46:33 UTC

A 5" display isn't the end of the world, dude. It's the resolution that kills you, and that's mostly Windows' fault. Take a look at the OQO model 02. Same size screen as the Sony, maybe marginally larger than the N800, but with a limited 800x480 resolution. They also cranked the shit out of the default UI settings, and big buttons/fonts actually help on that, especially when you use the interpolated zoom ( ... )

negrondevice January 8 2008, 23:54:50 UTC

>> A 5" display isn't the end of the world

I don't know I don't seem to strain as much with the other devices as I seem to on the Vaio.

As far as my phone, fuck that. I still have it but I stopped using it as anything but a phone and the thing I occasionally lookup shit on. For the life of me I can't figure out if it's the phone or the service when I see someone next to me yapping away on their phone and I get a "No Service Available" msg. Extremely frustrating.

I'm tempted by the eeePC...perhaps I'll install XP on it.

raptorck January 9 2008, 00:36:21 UTC

You don't strain as much because of a nasty balance between the use case and the output. The N800 has a higher DPI than the Sony, but to Nokia's credit, they made sure that it shipped with nice, huge horking fonts. As a result, when holding the N800 at the same distance as the UX (a fool's proposition, if only for the sheer mass of the UX,) you've got tons more data on the UX screen, which has more-or-less stock XP, with 12-point fonts across the board. Since the UX has double the DPI resolution of the Eee, you're basically asking to go blind. It's cramming 60% more data in 70% of the space, which is pretty much guaranteed to kill you over time ( ... )