Nokia has largely missed the smartphone market, choosing, like Microsoft, to continue investing in defending its traditional business. Most corporate Blackberry users now have either an Apple or Android smartphone or tablet as they eschew their RIM product for anything other than required corporate uses. And it's impossible to walk through an airport, or sit in a meeting these days without seeing people use their iPhones and iPads, purchased individually at retail, while leaving their PCs in the office. It's common now to hear about corporations considering iPads and other tablets for field workers. That $9B Microsoft spent on 2009 R&D, largely to protect its historical PC products, must look like something they wish had gone into mobile devices. As Microsoft has fought to defend its PC business by re-investing in Vista, then Windows 7 and Office 2010, the market has been shifting away from the PC platform entirely. Apple and Google dominate these mobile markets. Microsoft over-invested in defending PC sales for too long, while Nokia waited too long to invest in smartphone products and apps Soon we'll be able to do more, cheaper, better and faster with these new products than we ever could on a PC. Between smartphones and tablets, as well as the rapid development of cloud-based apps and data storage solutions, it's becoming quite clear that the life-span of PC technology doesn't look good. But at this volume smartphone and tablet sales are sure to create a decline in PC sales. At this volume tablet unit sales would be 70% of 2010 PC sales - and almost up to the 300M smartphones sold in 2010. Every PC has audio in/out, so it'd be a matter of hooking Applewin to those jacks.This week reported " Tablet Sales to Hit 242M by 2015." Both NPD Group and iSuppli are projecting a 10-fold increase wtihin 5 years in the volume of these new devices. In the Apple II, the CP was (and remains) a valuable resource. Today it's used to bootstrap machines with ADTPro, and actually run games from your iPod with Apple Game Server. And let us not forget the numerous educational science kits that used it as an I/O port. And we had a v-sync wire where the CP detected part of the videosignal. The Apple used the cassette port like an aux speaker output, and even input for digitizing sound. Think of it as peer-to-peer short range 10 meter network. I also built a two-way communications wire I strung between my and my buddy's bedroom window and I could program something and send it to him that way. I built a "modem" that connected to the cassette port, it was slow and naturally required some manual setup, but it worked. back in the day when I/O options were limited and expensive, every little bit helped. Some people may believe Cassette Ports are like meh. This should tide me over until Applewin IIgs is ready for primetime. You can download it here: Stand-Alone application. I still use Copy II+ on occasion, but Ciderpress meets most of my needs.Įdit: Well it turns out the online version is available as a standalone version. Without Ciderpress, you would need Applewin and ADTPro. I agree that Applewin, Ciderpress are indispensable for working with disk images, especially Ciderpress. I would rather have an Applewin equivalent so I can save my games, etc. It was perfect for playing games though because you could just go there and boot it up. I liked the online Apple IIgs emulator, but it doesn't support the latest browsers the last time I checked. What features and functionality would you like to see added to Applewin? One I can think of would be to eventually emulate more of the hardware cards that were available for it, but that might not be worth the effort in many cases.
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