Comments on: The Future is Good Enough http://theappslab.com/2009/04/27/the-future-is-good-enough/ Driving Innovation Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:43:00 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jake http://theappslab.com/2009/04/27/the-future-is-good-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-6886 Jake Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:48:48 +0000 http://theappslab.com/?p=2805#comment-6886 I'm not an expert. I just blog :) Thinking about future applications sounds like work, and it's a pretty big subject area. If I have some quiet time, I'll ponder that.<br><br>The good enough mantra does feel like the end of days for a heavy O/S that comes with crap I don't need. It's weird to see MSFT squeezed between price points that didn't used to exist. They're conceding the high end (and usability) to OS X, and netbooks/Linux are pushing up from the cheap end.<br><br>Can't be good. The Office business unit will carry them for a while though, but not forever. I'm not an expert. I just blog :) Thinking about future applications sounds like work, and it's a pretty big subject area. If I have some quiet time, I'll ponder that.

The good enough mantra does feel like the end of days for a heavy O/S that comes with crap I don't need. It's weird to see MSFT squeezed between price points that didn't used to exist. They're conceding the high end (and usability) to OS X, and netbooks/Linux are pushing up from the cheap end.

Can't be good. The Office business unit will carry them for a while though, but not forever.

]]> By: chet http://theappslab.com/2009/04/27/the-future-is-good-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-6883 chet Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:05:27 +0000 http://theappslab.com/?p=2805#comment-6883 You'd think by now I would know how to ask a fellow IT person a question and not leave it open to debate. :)<br><br>I was hoping to get you to share your thoughts on future applications. Not necessarily the next Facebook or Twitter, but what you think/see going on in the world...you know, since you are an expert. ;)<br><br>While I'm here though, I might as well talk about the netbook thingy too. We recently purchased another computer. Mine (desktop) was 7 years old and was sorely underpowered for what I needed it to do (run an Oracle database). I didn't really want to (nor could I afford to) drop a lot of money, but for what I needed, I was staring at the 1500 range, minimum. We decided to buy my wife a new laptop, I would take the "old" one (Dell XPS) and call it a day. I did however look at all the netbooks out there and was tempted...but my wife is near blind and she's taken to streaming netflix movies so I went with a cheap 15" Dell Inspiron (I had credit).<br><br>I agree about the iPhone. It's good enough for 90% of what I do (twitter, blogging, email and the like). One of these days, I'll sack up and buy one. You'd think by now I would know how to ask a fellow IT person a question and not leave it open to debate. :)

I was hoping to get you to share your thoughts on future applications. Not necessarily the next Facebook or Twitter, but what you think/see going on in the world…you know, since you are an expert. ;)

While I'm here though, I might as well talk about the netbook thingy too. We recently purchased another computer. Mine (desktop) was 7 years old and was sorely underpowered for what I needed it to do (run an Oracle database). I didn't really want to (nor could I afford to) drop a lot of money, but for what I needed, I was staring at the 1500 range, minimum. We decided to buy my wife a new laptop, I would take the “old” one (Dell XPS) and call it a day. I did however look at all the netbooks out there and was tempted…but my wife is near blind and she's taken to streaming netflix movies so I went with a cheap 15″ Dell Inspiron (I had credit).

I agree about the iPhone. It's good enough for 90% of what I do (twitter, blogging, email and the like). One of these days, I'll sack up and buy one.

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