jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sun Nov 18 06:21:22 CST 2012
William, > Well that is a "no duh" kind of answer John and does little to undermine what I think is common among MOST of typical households. LOL, well what can I say. My Nexus 7 costs $200 and that is as cheap as you get! An iPad costs 400+. I don't have the money to buy a tablet for both of my kids plus my wife plus me - four tablets. Furthermore I think tablets represent a different place in the device spectrum. My wife already has a laptop which she gets on for her email and such. My daughter Allie also gets on that for "playing with Barney". There is a "common room" computer in the living room where my son plays his RPG games and such. I have my laptop in my office where I do much of my day to day browsing. Having two 23" screens makes it much more convenient than a laptop for browsing. Then we have the Nexus 7 which kicks around the living room. The kids play games on it. Mary plays games on it after the kids are in bed. It goes in the car for the kids when going to medical appointments and such. You seem to imply that you would just buy one for yourself and one for your wife and you represent "most" households. I think you are far off from "most" households when you decide that they can just buy a tablet for each member of the household. According to the news the other day 50 million households are below the poverty line now. It seems unlikely that those households will get one for each family member although they *might* manage to get one for the family. Lots more families above the poverty line but well below my income bracket, again may afford one tablet for the house but not one for each member. In my case, the Nexus is mine, I lay claim to it. However I work 10 hours a day including from 2:30 when Allie and Robbie get home from school until about 6:00 PM. Thus there is a 3 hour window when I am not using my tablet and the kids are on it. In fact I pretty much don't use it until they go to bed, thus they can play on it all afternoon. They *do* take turns! So I repeat, it is going to depend on the household. Apparently in your household you will have a tablet for each person. Not so in mine, and I am quite confident in many households. "Users" in Android will at least allow more harmony between the users of the shared tablets. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 11/18/2012 6:52 AM, William Benson wrote: > Well that is a "no duh" kind of answer John and does little to undermine > what I think is common among MOST of typical households. > > ...grabled by smrat phonn as ususl > On Nov 17, 2012 7:48 PM, "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > >> I suppose that depends on your household. >> >> John W. Colby >> Colby Consulting >> >> Reality is what refuses to go away >> when you do not believe in it >> >> On 11/16/2012 11:28 PM, William Benson wrote: >> >>> Even though our laptops set for multiple users, my wife and I still of >>> course get used to our own. Someone always wants to do something on the >>> device so if we had 1 Nexus tablet, even if we set it up for 2 users, >>> wouldn't we both want to be using it at the same time more then likely? >>> >>> ...grabled by smrat phonn as ususl >>> >>> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >>