Darryl Collins
darryl at whittleconsulting.com.au
Wed Jul 11 18:18:05 CDT 2012
Agreed. I get a bit puzzled myself - there are two markets for sure. The consumer /domestic market where most folks want something 'that just works', don't care less about looking under the hood and really only use their devices for consuming media, services or information. For these people the iPad / Windows 8 solution should be magic. However for Business or those who develop or produce stuff off their systems this obsession with full sized apps, touch screens and swiping around to make things move really does seem a good solution.... -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Thursday, 12 July 2012 5:57 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Svar: What to do? (was: Just Another Old Boys Club) There is a realization that the selling of applications is not the market but the selling of services is. If you are in an urban setting and most people are, then the process separates into two very distinct groups; the consumers and the producers, that's us. Being in that urban setting predisposes your preferred interface to an app that's web based. Apple has made a business on building strictly consumer machines. I do not know how much percentage that covers but I would bet it is about 80. Microsoft wants to get into that lucrative market and is all in now. MS knows the business market will do just fine using Win7, using their servers. Businesses and governments are usually well behind the curve and are very conservative. Most banks and governments are still using XP, Microsoft PC Office. One government office announced they had just adopted IE7 and do not trust JavaScript usage so the chances of them moving into the new service era is almost zero. For the next fore-seeable future, in business, the PC will remain king...probably for another ten to fifteen years. I think there will always be plenty of work on the old systems. That is my prediction. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:45 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Svar: What to do? (was: Just Another Old Boys Club) Facebook, maybe? I saw the consumer demo of Windows 8 last night and kept wondering where it left business clients. If it looks like Android/Apple, behaves like them and is as much of a toy, why bother with windows at all? There's a huge amount of collected wisdom in this group, and business clients actually need our knowledge. Unfortunately, Microsoft seems to have decided that their future market belongs to social networks and not to businesses. When new PCs all come with Win8, people may have to resort to either not upgrading or just using their smart phones. Personally, I find the Android/Apple interface fine for smartphones, but I don't like it on tablets and I won't go there on PCs. Guess that means I'll have to stick with working for companies that live in the past. Charlotte On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi all > > The "No messages for 2 days" post reminded me of this thread 2 years ago. > Since then nothing has changed. > > The main issue I see, is that mail lists are quite bad at attracting > new members. You cannot just drop in and see what's going on, nor can > you attach screenshots or code files, you can't even link to a message > except if you are able to find it in the archive. > > The forum-style seems to me to be answer though I'm aware of the weak > sides. First of all some moderator time to keep spam and trolls out. > Also the cost to run it which forces some to include adds. > > However, except for these thoughts, I have no "solution". > What do you think? > > /gustav > <snip> > > -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com