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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 00:09:08 JST Warner Crocker

   • Dan Moren

   Core questions for Apple users.

   Dan Moren Questions What It Means To Be An Apple Fan These Days
   @dmoren
   #Apple #Tech

   https://warnercrocker.com/2025/04/30/dan-moren-questions-what-it-means-to-be-an-apple-fan-these-days/

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 00:28:38 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Chris Hessert 🐧 🇺🇦
     • Dan Moren

     @chessert @dmoren

     I was referring to the original Tablet PCs. No one else had any other “reliable” pen and tablet solution at the time. Better? Being able to take and archive digital notes then was a huge boost. Although I’ve given Surface tablets a try, they didn’t stick for me in the ways iPads do.

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     @WarnerCrocker @dmoren

     "Microsoft had my allegiance back in the Tablet PC days because they won it when those much maligned devices provided a better, more productive way to do my work."

     Uhm... better than what, exactly? And what years is he referring to? Is he referring to the awful Surface tablets?

     I started using Linux in 1996/7, and switched to using it as my main OS ~2000. Because I found I could turn on my computer, and just get work done.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 00:40:57 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Dan Moren

     @chessert @dmoren The pen and digital inking were key tools and methods for me. I made notes on scripts pre-rehearsals and during rehearsals. Being able to use them on a mobile tablet was the clincher. Evernote and OneNote, among others were key tools for me back then. Prior the tablet pc days, all of that was on paper. I still have boxes of scripts and notepads stored away from the days before that.

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     @WarnerCrocker @dmoren

     OK, so roughly 2001-2012? That makes some sense.

     But in the Army we were editing/sharing Microsoft docs with viewable edits (who changed what, in detail) in 2000... on laptops and PCs.

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     Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 21:59:08 JST Warner Crocker

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     • Sumocat 🐈‍⬛

     @Sumocat I buy that and indeed it's a large part of the mourning. That said, I do mourn the loss of the form factors (both slate and convertible) because, as I said many times back in the day, using those tools in my hands were a big part of the enjoyment when working. The iPad with Apple Pencil in hand currently feels much like using an HP Slate in rehearsal and juices similar feelings. Admittedly I am and always have been a niche case.

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     Sumocat 🐈‍⬛ (sumocat@mastodon.world)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 21:59:09 JST Sumocat 🐈‍⬛

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     @WarnerCrocker “I mourned the loss of Tablet PCs.” — It’s more the loss of the community than the form factor. My office upgraded us to 2-in-1s that we would rightfully call Tablet PCs back in the day. Old me would celebrate this, yet current me has no interest in it as a tablet because the UI remains half-assed, while TEO, ritePen, and every other tool that made my Tablet PC experience worthwhile are dead. That, the community that built those tools, is the loss we mourn.