@Jacque - your answer(s) pretty much what I expected, even in this case the app side of the program supplements a real computer. I was unaware that any mobile device (not chromebooks) could show multiple windows, which for anything but superficial programs would be difficult to work with imho.
Speech to text has gotten better, but is still far worse than typing manually for accuracy. I laughed at the line
(When I saw I was going to answer this post, I put my tablet down and went upstairs to get my Chromebook.)
I've seen some very smart people made to look like they were completely illiterate when using speech to text
As to this part -
jacque wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:30 am
[1.]My prediction about desktop apps is probably subjective, based on the fact that I haven't been asked to write a desktop app for a couple of years now. Everyone wants mobile, and
[2.] the general consensus is that if you don't have a mobile app you'll lose market share. Even Adobe has put out
[3.](somewhat restricted) mobile versions of their main desktop software. I can't imagine editing images on a mobile phone, but there you have it. And
[4.] the current generation is very comfortable using Google Docs and Sheets and whatever to do all their work in the cloud.
1.) I don't know the specifics of your work load obviously, and I am only a hobby hack at best, but in the fields I've worked in that relied on computer software, even manual labor jobs like brick making, the software is always going to be desktop centric. In the construction trades, estimating can be done on a mobile device (rough measuring, form filling, etc) and for sure it works out better for the person doing the estimate (not necessarily for the client), but even in that situation it all goes back to the office and onto desktops in one way or another.
2.) Sure, taking the above trades example, no one wants to carry even a laptop and try to measure out a room with it, it is far easier to put your phone (or whatever) against the wall and shoot the beam across and have it auto-fill the fields. For an estimate which only needs to be ball park accurate, that works out fine. There are plenty of ways apps can supplement any software on a desktop, or be used to get information to a desktop, but I don't see any way it would replace a desktop.
My thoughts on everyone seeming to want (top word of the year x) is that
you, as a software supplier, should certainly do your best to
provide (buzzword x), hopefully in great quantities, and make a killing. The downside of (buzzword x) will become apparent a little ways off, and everyone will then want (buzzword y).
I remember when years ago, everyone was telling me (the cloud) was the way of the future. Sure enough, LOTS of people listened to that garbage. What do we have now? Utilities that can be hacked, financial institutions that can be hacked, colleges that can be hacked, and other crimes that are now so easy to commit that the perpetrators don't even have to leave home.
I can't even begin to tell you how much more convenient it is for me to have to unfreeze my credit now just to get a quote for car insurance, or hope my identity isn't stolen. Boy, I'm sure glad the majority went with that!! Yay cloud storage eh?
3.) I can actually see someone wanting to do a quick doodle on a phone (not me, of course, I still use paper!), and I've actually seen people do comprehensive 3d modeling on a tablet (with the proper accessories, like a drawing pen), but even there as you say, the limits quickly put you back on a desktop at some point.
4.) You really don't want my opinion on the current generation. Just like the generation before ours, and the one before that, stretching back to the dawn of time I am sure, each generation that comes along seems to have crazy ideas until they get far older and reality takes the points off their heads
Disclaimer: The above is the opinion of someone who is probably not entirely sane. Read at your own peril. The above is also not intended to be taken literally, subjectively, inconsequentially, or in a hostile manner.
Being my own opinion, you are free to disagree with it as everyone has their own opinion,
however, if you disagree with my opinion, then in my opinion, your opinion is
incredibly silly.
The author of the above reserves the right to deny having ever made any of the statements in the above text (and since attention spans and memory of audiences have declined so greatly in the last 4 decades, if anyone quotes any part of the above text, I will simply claim it was an edited and unauthorized version
or that I never said it. Seems to work for everyone else
)
