誰的新科技?
睇過以下文章，令到我諗起做sales的原意.... 係時候諗諗電腦sales的未來......
ref: http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/07/27/who_needs_technology_anyway/index.html
Who Needs Technology, Anyway?
Aaron McKenna
July 27, 2006 15:15
Introduction
You know, for the editor of a technology website I use comparatively little tech in the day-to-day struggle to keep my head above water. Very little of the stuff I use on a daily basis is under a year old, much to the dismay of marketing and PR types who think we should all upgrade to "The Next Big Thing" every financial quarter.
The mobile (cell, if you prefer) phone I use is, borrowing the words from Carlsberg beer advertisers everywhere, "Probably The Best Phone In The World," as anyone who has ever owned (and, several years later, probably still does own) the Nokia 6310i will attest. It certainly can't be used like a Blackberry or fancy MP3 playing phone. What it does have is the ability to send and receive calls and text messages, mark things in the calendar and go on for days and days without once needing a recharge.
The 6310i idealizes what I want from a piece of technology: I want it to do the job and keep doing it, be it in terms of battery life or surviving the odd drunken fumble onto the floor.
A colleague of mine, on the other hand, is a very tech-savvy businessman and really into playing with the new toys. He recently upgraded from the same 6310i as I use. He sold it on eBay, where demand for the phone is so high that Nokia had to stop making them. His new device is a Blackberry and he loves it. The BB has all the features of a phone, plus more including the ability to check and write emails on the fly.
It's more of a pain to maintain than anything else, if you ask me. I tried having a PDA at one stage, and all it did was become another dead weight in my pocket. I'd flip open the laptop, check everything there, update stuff, call people, update it again. By the time the day was over the PDA was so out of synch with my laptop and I'd have to spend fifteen minutes organizing everything again to get it ready for the odd occasion when I'd actually need it for something... at which point, of course, the back-lit LCD screen had had its way with the battery and the whole thing died.
The problem for many is that it can be so easy to get caught up in productivity for productivity's sake. If the good old marketing hacks are to be believed then the PDA I have will make my life better; until six months down the line they release a new version and suddenly I need a PDA Smart Phone in order to be at the zenith of my abilities.
Give Me A Laptop, A Simple Phone And Paper V1.0After becoming jaded by all this technology in my life, nowadays I carry one briefcase with me wherever I go. It contains one laptop, plus spare battery, one simple but robust phone, one USB memory key, one pen and a pad full of Paper v1.0.
Outlook and my phone act as my calendar, and I alternate between the two and some paper to organise everything I've got to do. I write using the laptop or the pen and paper. I send email via the laptop and thank my good graces when I can get away from the damn Inbox; though my trusty phone can act as a modem if I really, really (really, really, really...) need it and happen to be miles from any Wi-Fi hotspots or plug-in points.
Sure I'm missing out on the ability to simply push said email to my phone, but then I would have two places to manage my Inbox - on my laptop, and in my phone. That doesn't quite double the workload of maintaining it all, but it doesn't half it either; that's for sure.
What are the advantages of my extraneous technology shunning system? I have a mobile that won't run out of battery at the first sign of a back-lighted LCD or shoddy onboard camera. I don't have to carry around any extra weight and I don't have to worry about synching everything up to the laptop which I take with me everywhere anyways.
Oh yes, I don't spend my entire salary chasing the organization carrot. And have you ever seen paper blue screen? Burn perhaps, but at least you know where you stand with fire as opposed to the ever murky registry.
The final straw comes with the fact that there remain things that only a laptop can do - there are many things a laptop can do better than a PDA which measures its number crunching abilities in MHz, but more importantly there are things that only a notebook, with its GHz crunching powers, can do. So why, pray tell, would I want to haul around a notebook AND a PDA/smartphone combination?
I'm not willing to shell out for and carry around two or three items, all of which essentially do the same job, have to be coordinated and only one of which (the laptop) can fulfil all my needs in the same package.
ref: http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/07/27/who_needs_technology_anyway/index.html
Who Needs Technology, Anyway?
Aaron McKenna
July 27, 2006 15:15
Introduction
You know, for the editor of a technology website I use comparatively little tech in the day-to-day struggle to keep my head above water. Very little of the stuff I use on a daily basis is under a year old, much to the dismay of marketing and PR types who think we should all upgrade to "The Next Big Thing" every financial quarter.
The mobile (cell, if you prefer) phone I use is, borrowing the words from Carlsberg beer advertisers everywhere, "Probably The Best Phone In The World," as anyone who has ever owned (and, several years later, probably still does own) the Nokia 6310i will attest. It certainly can't be used like a Blackberry or fancy MP3 playing phone. What it does have is the ability to send and receive calls and text messages, mark things in the calendar and go on for days and days without once needing a recharge.
The 6310i idealizes what I want from a piece of technology: I want it to do the job and keep doing it, be it in terms of battery life or surviving the odd drunken fumble onto the floor.
A colleague of mine, on the other hand, is a very tech-savvy businessman and really into playing with the new toys. He recently upgraded from the same 6310i as I use. He sold it on eBay, where demand for the phone is so high that Nokia had to stop making them. His new device is a Blackberry and he loves it. The BB has all the features of a phone, plus more including the ability to check and write emails on the fly.
It's more of a pain to maintain than anything else, if you ask me. I tried having a PDA at one stage, and all it did was become another dead weight in my pocket. I'd flip open the laptop, check everything there, update stuff, call people, update it again. By the time the day was over the PDA was so out of synch with my laptop and I'd have to spend fifteen minutes organizing everything again to get it ready for the odd occasion when I'd actually need it for something... at which point, of course, the back-lit LCD screen had had its way with the battery and the whole thing died.
The problem for many is that it can be so easy to get caught up in productivity for productivity's sake. If the good old marketing hacks are to be believed then the PDA I have will make my life better; until six months down the line they release a new version and suddenly I need a PDA Smart Phone in order to be at the zenith of my abilities.
Give Me A Laptop, A Simple Phone And Paper V1.0After becoming jaded by all this technology in my life, nowadays I carry one briefcase with me wherever I go. It contains one laptop, plus spare battery, one simple but robust phone, one USB memory key, one pen and a pad full of Paper v1.0.
Outlook and my phone act as my calendar, and I alternate between the two and some paper to organise everything I've got to do. I write using the laptop or the pen and paper. I send email via the laptop and thank my good graces when I can get away from the damn Inbox; though my trusty phone can act as a modem if I really, really (really, really, really...) need it and happen to be miles from any Wi-Fi hotspots or plug-in points.
Sure I'm missing out on the ability to simply push said email to my phone, but then I would have two places to manage my Inbox - on my laptop, and in my phone. That doesn't quite double the workload of maintaining it all, but it doesn't half it either; that's for sure.
What are the advantages of my extraneous technology shunning system? I have a mobile that won't run out of battery at the first sign of a back-lighted LCD or shoddy onboard camera. I don't have to carry around any extra weight and I don't have to worry about synching everything up to the laptop which I take with me everywhere anyways.
Oh yes, I don't spend my entire salary chasing the organization carrot. And have you ever seen paper blue screen? Burn perhaps, but at least you know where you stand with fire as opposed to the ever murky registry.
The final straw comes with the fact that there remain things that only a laptop can do - there are many things a laptop can do better than a PDA which measures its number crunching abilities in MHz, but more importantly there are things that only a notebook, with its GHz crunching powers, can do. So why, pray tell, would I want to haul around a notebook AND a PDA/smartphone combination?
I'm not willing to shell out for and carry around two or three items, all of which essentially do the same job, have to be coordinated and only one of which (the laptop) can fulfil all my needs in the same package.
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