New technologies may usurp old ones nearly every year, but many of us still reach for our old-school laptops. That’s no accident.
My wife was recently using her tablet, and I asked if she’d replied to an important email. She promptly put down the tablet and reached for her laptop. “Why not your tablet?” I quizzed. She gave me her best “Are you kidding?” face, saying in total deadpan: “I have work to do here.” My wife loves her tablet and uses it nearly every day but she clearly reaches for her laptop for “serious tasks.” While most of us can likely agree that mobile is the future of computing, something very interesting is happening here. In a world where new technologies usurp the old nearly every year, many of us are reaching for our old school laptops surprisingly often. This isn’t just nostalgia, there is something deeply inadequate about mobile. This post is about figuring out how to fix it.
