A truly personal device
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 3:26 am
In that respect, the landscape has become somewhat more fragmented by new channels such as WhatsApp and (social) platforms such as Instagram, although both are of course owned by Facebook and work is also underway to merge Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
To be honest, on closer inspection I am not sad that the universal inbox is not there. After all, there is a time and a place for all information flows, and that does not have to be (always) the same place. As far as I am concerned, I would rather not, even. I wrote about that later in my article ' Information overload? How to streamline your e-mail, messaging and social media '.
Where I hit the mark, I think, was on the point of the PDA, the personal digital assistant . Of course, that has become the smartphone par excellence. Because who doesn't have one? I believe that the market penetration in the Netherlands is well over 85% and among pupils and students that is perhaps a hundred percent. For knowledge workers, daily work is also unthinkable without such a device in their pocket or bag.
What was also true was the 'projection' of cambodia telegram data information from your PDA… er, from your smartphone, onto other screens. I'm thinking of my Apple TV, but also of the Google Chromecast, of the screens and dongles from manufacturers like Barco, and of smart screens in meeting rooms where you can also display your laptop screen wirelessly without (too many) problems.
Phones and smartphones
The principle of bring your own device (BYOD) has also become much more common in recent years. While this was still quite special in 2011, nowadays people increasingly decide for themselves which types of devices they use, whether it is a smartphone, tablet or laptop. In line with this, my impression is that fewer and fewer people have a mobile phone/smartphone, both privately and from their boss, which I sometimes saw a few years ago.
What the personal smart device is not, or at least only to a very limited extent, is a “workstation.” Not that you can’t communicate, read, collaborate, and video call with your smartphone — you can. By “workstation,” I mean that you connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to your smartphone and then use that set up the way many knowledge workers now use their tablets and/or laptops. Samsung and Microsoft have developed products for this, but I’ve never seen them in the wild.
To be honest, on closer inspection I am not sad that the universal inbox is not there. After all, there is a time and a place for all information flows, and that does not have to be (always) the same place. As far as I am concerned, I would rather not, even. I wrote about that later in my article ' Information overload? How to streamline your e-mail, messaging and social media '.
Where I hit the mark, I think, was on the point of the PDA, the personal digital assistant . Of course, that has become the smartphone par excellence. Because who doesn't have one? I believe that the market penetration in the Netherlands is well over 85% and among pupils and students that is perhaps a hundred percent. For knowledge workers, daily work is also unthinkable without such a device in their pocket or bag.
What was also true was the 'projection' of cambodia telegram data information from your PDA… er, from your smartphone, onto other screens. I'm thinking of my Apple TV, but also of the Google Chromecast, of the screens and dongles from manufacturers like Barco, and of smart screens in meeting rooms where you can also display your laptop screen wirelessly without (too many) problems.
Phones and smartphones
The principle of bring your own device (BYOD) has also become much more common in recent years. While this was still quite special in 2011, nowadays people increasingly decide for themselves which types of devices they use, whether it is a smartphone, tablet or laptop. In line with this, my impression is that fewer and fewer people have a mobile phone/smartphone, both privately and from their boss, which I sometimes saw a few years ago.
What the personal smart device is not, or at least only to a very limited extent, is a “workstation.” Not that you can’t communicate, read, collaborate, and video call with your smartphone — you can. By “workstation,” I mean that you connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to your smartphone and then use that set up the way many knowledge workers now use their tablets and/or laptops. Samsung and Microsoft have developed products for this, but I’ve never seen them in the wild.