T101.8 - Mobile Devices |
Mobile devices started with cell phones.
When I started in outside sales in 1996, I had a flip phone. They had just phased out those big boxes that looked like old military radios. A monthly cell phone bill could range from $300 to $800 in 1996. Am thinking it was about $1/minute but that may be incorrect.
There was only modest progress with phones and adding keyboards to phones until the early 2000s.
Then in 2007 Apple released the iphone and the entire world shifted. A rectangular box that did all kinds of things and it only had one button?
Then in 2010 Apple released the ipad.
The development of these mobile devices put a huge strain on website developers and website owners.
Microsoft, with all their wealth couldn't get a stable platform to compete with apple to save their a-s. Google started competing quickly with an "Android" operating system on both phones and tablets Amazon came along later with some tablets with limited and niche functionality.
When I started in outside sales in 1996, I had a flip phone. They had just phased out those big boxes that looked like old military radios. A monthly cell phone bill could range from $300 to $800 in 1996. Am thinking it was about $1/minute but that may be incorrect.
There was only modest progress with phones and adding keyboards to phones until the early 2000s.
Then in 2007 Apple released the iphone and the entire world shifted. A rectangular box that did all kinds of things and it only had one button?
- The iPhone's primary purpose was not that of a phone. It was a web browser. A game console. A place to store information. A way to connect to information and a phone. That type of shift for some of us who only wanted to use a phone as a phone back then was rough.
Then in 2010 Apple released the ipad.
- A small rectangular, wireless device the size of a small or midsize book, and a half inch thick or so. This device enabled connection to the internet and access to games and tools and all the same stuff the iphone did, but with a bigger screen. Like the iphone it had no external keyboard. All the typing happening on the touch screen.
The development of these mobile devices put a huge strain on website developers and website owners.
- Websites now had to be usable on various screen sizes and dimensions but also on these little devices too, and that futzed with all kinds of things. In addition, a lot of the javascript running after a page loaded had to now cater to new machines that may or may not handle the standard script that had been rolling out for non-mobile devices.
Microsoft, with all their wealth couldn't get a stable platform to compete with apple to save their a-s. Google started competing quickly with an "Android" operating system on both phones and tablets Amazon came along later with some tablets with limited and niche functionality.
Today, most folks think of mobile devices as either being phones or tablets.
Accessories for mobile devices include wired and wireless earphones, small speakers, and dongles for credit card processing among others.
Google Chromebook vs Apple Ipad
Google's Chromebook is thought of more as a light laptop than a mobile device because it doesn't have all the cameras and sensors that are traditional now to mobile devices. BUT it's not a laptop in any traditional sense either as it has no major local storage system and no way to open traditional office suite software (from an old school thinking perspective)
Accessories for mobile devices include wired and wireless earphones, small speakers, and dongles for credit card processing among others.
Google Chromebook vs Apple Ipad
Google's Chromebook is thought of more as a light laptop than a mobile device because it doesn't have all the cameras and sensors that are traditional now to mobile devices. BUT it's not a laptop in any traditional sense either as it has no major local storage system and no way to open traditional office suite software (from an old school thinking perspective)
- These two devices have massively different uses and applications.
- You will need to sit with both of them to get an understanding of the level and magnitude of the differences and to realize where one shines vs the other and to realize how much different the Chromebook is from a traditional computer too.