(The)BrainDead? (Hopefully not yet)

Posted by 22111
Oct 28, 2020 at 02:04 PM

“For me this is wrong thinking. With the price you pay the past developments. Because exactly as you say, i pay for software based on their current features not on what i expect in the future.”

Mr. Scholz tries to make a “point” here - but he fails miserably, again -, by citing the developer of TablePlan and HyperPlan… who systematically says so in order to cut off expectations / wishful thinking in his offerings - good for him, but in my allegation, I explicitely referred to the opposite “user strategy” - which I do NOT adhere to! but which is quite common!!! - that implies “I want to facilitate / make possible further developments (in general or specific ones)”, so I continue to pay (by updates, in the absence of real inventions; by annual “rents”, ditto) even when I could do without those current, minor adjustments I get for those additional payments”. - I clearly set up this mind set - to which, again, I don’t adhere -, so “wrong thinking” - IF Mr. Scholz here meant my thinking, is obviously another aggression of his, not justified by my wording; on the other hand, if Mr. Scholz wanted to imply that those people I cited in my implied citation, were/are wrong in their turn, I’m with him, again.

But as said, my main point is, “you” - the majority of “users”, and the majority of participants in this forum - should have allowed developers to do their “home work”, i.e. to strive to excellence within their respective area of excellence, be that Windows or Apple desktop = “Mac” programming; instead, first, you asked them to deliver their goodies on up to four platforms (Win, Mac, i, Android), and then even, nowadays, you ask them for full-featured (!) and secure (?) web applications.

So you get what you finally asked for, something not-so-good in the end, instead of allowing for real ace work - “allowing” here meaning “deliver the funds for”, i.e. accepting such solutions in numbers, instead of going elsewhere, “going cloud” instead - onto your traditional system, be that Mac* or Windows.

*For Mac, I mentioned the two quite outstanding applications above, but as already said above, the better one of the two seems to “cripple itself” (3-pane > traditional 2-pane, whilst the 3-pane design obviously the “real one”: they had it: they left it behind: incredible!) - I explain the “latest” developments in the Mac IM area by their developers also strolling into the panic mode, seeing more and more of their income going to - FAR!!! - lesser “cloud” offerings, thus trying to make their, henceforth quite or really elaborate, desktop offerings more “available to the masses”... instead of doing some real development and then multiplying their prices by three: in other words, whilst many other software areas already have been acknowledged of being “special”, hence being entitled to ask for (very low) 4-digit prices (on buy, or the equivalent prices on rent), IM, up to now, has NOT reached that status - WHY not? If something really outstanding came around, I’d buy it at more than 1,000 bucks plus VAT… (And TB is the “hybrid offering” in-between: 3 times the price of the most expensive of its contenders, not ten times their price, but then, “promises, promises”, instead of deliverance…))

As for my allegation that a portable Windows device should be fine - or then, a respective Mac device - and please, I don’t have the slightest “relationship” with either Dynabook or then Toshiba (from which the former was sort of a spin-off or the like): all to the contrary, my Toshiba notebooks over the years rather failed me “before (due?) time” - today, I’ve reached an age where I’m happy with my “desktop”, but I had notebooks for around 30, 35 years of my life.

Dynabook Portégé (that’s the old Toshiba name for their high-brow notebooks) X30L G115, 13”, i7-10something, 16 GB, 512 SSD, official price in Germany 2,139 euro, “street price” 1,564,51 euro (the euro being at 1,183 bucks currently), incl. (currently) 16 p.c. of VAT, so in the U.S., this should be available for around 1,500 bucks, plus local taxes again.

It has got even LAN - yes, I’m a conservative, very sorry here again! - and a keyboard - ok, without num block, and I, personally, would never ever again buy any notebook without a num block, I’ve got too many macros to manage, to trigger… -

at it weights 834 g - now compare with your i-, your Android-something, without keyboard, without your regular OS.

Battery life 8 hours, within a “very demanding” PC Magazine 9/2020 test, i.e. regular office use to be expected, 10 to 12 hours, and then:

People who are on the road, most of their time, could use it with an add-on (typically 250 euro or such) in their office environment, and people who are in their office most of the time, could use some good synch tool whenever, here and then, they leave the office.

No need, in both use cases, for Apple, Amazon (! they own some 60 or more of current “cloud” rent space, after all), Google, MS, whoever “owns” your data…

and, instead of getting inferior “cloud” functionality, you’d motivate the “core” developers (i.e. Windows, Mac) to really go forward in their developments.

Obviously, people alleging I was on drugs*, are out of their mind.

(And alternative offerings in the range of 834 g, from the make of your choice, will come soon.)

*I know that my submissions are very dense, but then, you all around here have a master degree, minimum, so what?