I agree on the lack of promotion - seems it's all viral/word-of-mouth.
In a way that surprises me because ON 2007 is pretty solid, but maybe the
lack of promotion has allowed the ON developers to create without having a
lot of marketing guys (like me) make suggestions about adding features.
Loved the tc1100. Don't know why Compaq didn't continue with it.
;-)
--
Dennis James
"Rainald Taesler" wrote:
> dvjames wrote:
>
>> I don't want to speak too soon about this, but I think that ON
>> could be what I think of as a killer ap. Some software comes out
>> and it just changes the way people use computers. Think about
>> Visicalc. Think about Microsoft Word (I started on a Mac and I
>> think I still have a .5 BETA around here somewhere). People will be
>> buying computers just to use this. If I was Microsoft I would just
>> give this away.
>
> LOL
> But I think that so far there really has not been enough to promote ON.
> It's a "killer app", for sure, but who knows it?
> In our whole faculty so far no one is using ON - only because the
> colleagues don't know it and have no imagination on how productive one
> can be when using this fine piece of software.
>
>> I know what I'm talking about on this point. I bought a Motion
>> Tablet (about 3 pounds) to use in meetings just to take notes and
>> to test how I felt about ON and computing WITHOUT a keyboard.
>
> Yes, ON is an ideal instrument for a TabletPC.
> And the good thing is that it's not just a TabletPC app but most useful
> on any desktop too.
>
>>Final
>> answer: It is definitely worth it. Tapping (noise) on keys in a
>> meeting is sometimes verboten and at the least somewhat distracting
>> (I type between 80-100 WPM so if I chose to type, I could).
>
> It's not only the noise of the keys. The major thing is the atmosphere
> in a meeting room where a third of the participants are fumbling around
> with their notebooks. By the time using laptops during our faculty
> conferences has become a NoNo - not officially "verboten" but everyone
> feels that he is doing something wrong when opening his laptop.
> Totally different with a TabletPC. It's not disturbing at all, just like
> traditionally taking notes on paper.
>
>> Penning definately captures what is being said faster (for me)
>> because it works with a different part of my brain. I also do my
>> brainstorming with the pen. Plus, the looks I get when I whip out a
>> computer without a keyboard in meetings is pretty cool too (OK I'm
>> a geek - ).
>
> LOL
> Yes, at first colleagues are really curious when they first see me
> opening the portfolio bag of my good old HP/COMPAQ tc1100 ( I always
> leave the keyboard in the office when going to a meeting. And sometimes
> the really fascinating when I quote from an old papers or the minutes of
> a previous meeting. ;-) ;-).
> Still I wonder why so far no one followed my "exotic" way.
>
> Rainald
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