[OT] mobile rising

[solidstate1991]

On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 11:46:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I just saw this post about the upcoming Lenovo/AT&T Moto Tab 
> and thought of you:
>
> https://www.phonearena.com/news/Lenovo-Moto-Tab-ATT-features_id99782
>
> For $300, you can buy a tablet that lets you do everything you 
> normally do on a tablet, plus watch TV on the go.  If you want 
> to use it for work, you buy the bluetooth accessories shown in 
> that embedded promo youtube video and you can do that too.  
> Want a screen in your kitchen, to control that optional 
> speaker, watch recipe videos while you cook, and do video 
> calls?  That's a fairly new use case you can try out too.
>
> So for $300 or a bit more, depending on what accessories you 
> get, you replace your laptop and TV, and have completely new 
> things you can do.  While this effort is fairly ambitious- 
> having watched movies on my tablet with family members, similar 
> to how the family in the video does, I can attest that your 
> arms get tired holding the tablet out front like they do- seems 
> to me that mobile convergence is only increasing.
>
> As for your mom and cousin going back to PCs, let me tell you 
> about my own mom.  Five years ago, we were both using Windows 
> laptops: her chunky laptop for her business, my Win7 ultrabook 
> for coding and recreation.  Today, we both use Android tablets 
> for these same uses- we're both on our second Android tablet 
> now- plus she'll actually use her tablet at home now because a 
> 10" tablet is nowhere as bulky as a Windows laptop.
>
> She never typed much in her business use, mostly reading emails 
> and other viewing, so the laptop keyboard was always 
> superfluous, but she had to have one because almost nobody was 
> selling tablets a decade ago when she got it.  Whereas, I 
> paired a bluetooth keyboard with my tablet and get by just fine 
> with that.
>
> The sales data I've linked shows that there are a lot more 
> people like us than those you point out, and my point is that 
> the mobile market is encroaching even on to people like your 
> family, with products like that Moto Tab.
>
> btw, if you want to get back on-topic, simply change the topic 
> of your post up top and write a post about the original topic, 
> rather than posting in an OT thread about what we're talking 
> about.

I'm thinking on picking up some Android tablet for development 
purposes, would be good to port my game engine for mobile 
devices, probably have to resort for OpenGL for graphics 
acceleration instead of using CPU blitter, although that might 
work under NEON (currently I'm using SSE2).