On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:16:35 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Michael Logies" wrote

| No. For working in the cloud a PC with "Chrome OS" oder "Cloudready"
| is good enough. My daughter uses a 24" Dell-monitor (1920*1200 pixel)
| and a usual keyboard and mouse with her Chromebit. The Chromebit is
| easily the device booting fastest of all my PCs (but it is always on,
| anyhow), same is true for updates, which take about 10-20 seconds (not
| minutes or hours like Windows).
|

We don't seem to be diagreeing except in interpretation.
You use Windows PCs at work, with local software. Your
daughter uses a Chromebook,

No, a Chromebit. That is a full PC in the size of an USB-stick, with a
big monitor and a big keyboard and mouse attached for using web apps
(from Google and others).

Web apps are (often) conceptionally superior to local programs: No
need for upgrading by the end user, the web app is upgraded centrally
instead. No need for massive, local CPU power, because the heavy
lifting is done centrally. No need for big local storage, because data
is stored centrally. The result is a cheaper, safer, easier use of
computer power. Economics of scale are at work here and that`s why
this will be the dominant way of computing in the future.

for unspecified things.
School work online?

Yes. For writing reports, presentations, editing pictures from the
smartphone, putting them into presentations. Next step may be
collaborating on the same documents with others, which is simple and
free with Google Apps.

You use your phone mainly for email.

For inoreader.com, collected with news+ (Android app). Then I forward
good articles by email to some mailing lists and people, including
myself. That`s faster than on a PC.

The latter makes sense to me. I can see the appeal
of a tablet

I have not written about a tablet.

The existence of tablets has nothing
to do with the life of desktops, just as the existence of
microwave ovens doesn't make stoves obsolete.

A better analogy would be the fate of open fires after the introducing
of central heating.

I don't mean that. I mean that Google products are spyware.

Then choose another web app provider. Chrome OS/Cloudread has an
anonymous (guest) mode.

Ironically, one of the reason I don't have
a computer phone (besides cost, irrelevance and
privacy issues) is because I would want to learn
the system

In the future "the system" will be mainly in the cloud, connected to
dumber terminals. You don`t learn to operate a power station to use
your electricity at home, do you?

in order to trust it in terms of privacy
and security. And I don't want to have to take on
such a big learning project just to use a phone.

Smartphones are the dominant computer platform today because they are
much more simple than a PC, cheaper, easier to carry.

As for Windows ads, what about ads for Candy Crush
or MS Office in Metro buttons?

I deinstalled these. Havn`t seen other ads on my PCs with Windows 10.

Regards

M: