You’re right, Brian, of course. And even my son, an accomplished photographer,
uses his iPhone for most of his photos.
Chris
> On 11 Mar 17, at 12:59, brian gray via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> ChrisB said:
>
> <Microsoft was late to the Internet, it put Netscape out of business and
> tried to re-shape html with IE by ignoring web standards. Its crappy Outlook
> Express might have been instrumental in the spread of spam and now it has a
> new crappy Internet tool. You?d think that they would have learned . . .>
>
> But they know that through good marketing they have an effective monopoly
> with desktop computers (not tablets or smartphones) apart from experts using
> Apple products. Thus I have not heard of a school or college, or a course
> for older computer novices using laptops, which does not start with Windows
> products. And try finding text books/manuals in the library for anything
> other than Windows or Apple software for day to day use; apart perhaps for
> Adobe software.
> I used to use Netscape, and then Firefox, but had to keep IE available as
> bank and government web-pages sometimes would only open in IE. I still use
> Corel office software at home but know how difficult it is to find advice if
> required. LibreOffice (was Sun Office)is still around but I doubt many use
> it in preference to Microsoft's or Google's free cloud based products as an
> alternative to Microsoft Word.
> Technical merit is not enough in this world and there are advantages in using
> the same software as the majority around you. I would not bet on Edge not
> reaching a similar majority position unless tablets finally replace laptops
> and desktops as seems possible.
>
> Mentioning photography (!), what proportion of photographs nowadays are taken
> on dedicated cameras rather than smartphones? In this case, most people
> carry phones around but not cameras.
>
> Brian
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