Thread: An 'internet' tablet or a Linux computer?
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2008-10-21 , 19:52
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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
When designing apps - the concept of "workable" always applies to which environment and platform you are designing for.

Just because a spreadsheet is "workable" on a desktop PC, doesnt mean it is "workable" on a tablet - even if you could actually run it.
Just because it can run doesn't neccesarily mean it can "work".

A good app design takes this important distinction of "workable" into factor I believe. Its not what can run, but what can work - both hardware constraints wise and usable design wise.

Again, this is just the way I look at it. I understand that some people here need everything to run on the tablet and somehow work on it too.
(Good point.)

Because they can. Or because any other application designed for the NIT isn't up to par for one reason or another.

Running applications not designed for the NIT is good for others reasons: performance testing, seeing why the user interface is not good in general, seeing if the user interface is not good for the NIT.

The NIT is a Linux computer. It has hardware running on Linux. Many hardware is used together with Linux. Tons of embedded. Look at Linuxdevices. However, a Linux computer is not necessarily a NIT. A Linux computer is a very broad definition. To most people Linux is mostly known to run on servers, and then PC desktops. That doesn't mean the NIT is a Linux server or Linux PC desktop. Its the definition of 'computer' which is the culprit.

Same with voting 'machines'; they're not 'machines'; they're computers.
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