Wasn't their whole printer strategy selling printers with low cost ink? So am I understanding this correctly - their camera business wasn't making money, so they entered into the printer business, but rather than sell low margin printers and high margin ink, they sell low margin printers and low margin ink?
You mean dont expect to buy a PRE MADE READY TO GO one anytime soon.
I built my 5th one last week and have another on the way.
starter Cost to build? $99.00 shipped for a used Stylistic ST5011d off of ebay with better specs than the ipad 1.
Ubuntu installs nicely with small tweaks. Make it screaming fast by dropping in a 32 or 64 gig SSD drive instead of a spinning drive.
Total cost with new SSD, upgrade ram to 2 gig, and a new battery? $329.95 Oh and it kicks the crud out of any android tablet... Except most linux apps are NOT written for tablet use. so there are almost ZERO apps that have a smooth operation.
But it's a Ubuntu tablet, in my hands right now. and you can have one too!
You can have one now if you have the education to spend 3 hours putting one together.
Wait, it kicks the crud out of any Android tablet except there isn't a single app with smooth operation? So, find a used one on eBay, wait for it to arrive, then spend some time sticking in new ram, a new battery and a new hard drive, then install Ubuntu, and then notice that there are no optimized apps, and all existing apps run poorly? And that's just from your comments, and you seem to like the things!
I disagree with comment "The Roku had some major launch issues with their v2, and I gave up after a month of poor streaming and difficult-to-manage navigation."
Roku is very simple interface. I don't have Apple TV but I have Boxee and Google TV.
I agree with the part where he said he gave up. He probably did give up.
it integrates so well with my TV. It controls my cable box, Blue ray player, stereo, etc.... Until all content is streamed-- this is the perfect box to have. The Boxee, Apple TV, and Roku are all stand alone. This is Google's real advantage-- you can migrate over.
I've been through so many of these things in search of one solution, it's sad. Boxee has atrocious media tagging, even when you just ask it to scan your own NFO, TBN and JPG files. Roku has no support for playing local files over the network, except for the private Plex channel which transcodes. AppleTV is okay when jailbroke with XBMC installed, but still misses Hulu, and I don't like quitting XBMC to get back to Netflix and vice-versa. Google misses Hulu as well.
So far, I'm happiest with Plex on a Windows PC I built hooked up to a TV. Superb local and network media playback, great skins, support for Hulu, Pandora, RDIO, Netflix... really just missing Amazon VOD and I'd be thrilled.
I type 110 words per minute, and have no graphical ability at all. And use Apple. I used to type a smidge faster, but now I do all that copy and paste all day long so I guess I slowed down just a bit. And for the record, I flunked typing as a kid in school, since I refused to rest my hands on the home row, and told the teacher I would do it after she typed faster than me with more accuracy.
So what would you do if you got your eReader, but didn't have a computer to establish a wired connection to your router?
WPS in theory gives a built-in password that you can use to boot-strap the process with only wireless devices.
This exploit in WPS isn't due to a conceptual defect, it's an implementation defect that made the built-in PINs pretty much useless. So assuming that router vendors add in some rate-limiting, a proper-length PIN, or lock-outs for incorrect guesses (with a physical button to clear the lockout), the concept can be more secure than the average WPA password. It's ridiculous to suggest that only computer-savvy people should be able to use WIFI, and it's no longer an option to have the routers default to open access points.
There are that many people with eReaders and WiFi routers but not computers? Not only that, every wireless router I ever had came with a default SSID and admin password, and could be configured wirelessly.
Why should we believe Microsoft supports Mac OS/X for anything but blatantly self-serving reasons, when the customers have been trodden on time and again?
Oh come on. Even Apple only supports OS/X for blatantly self serving purposes.
The article says it's for email only (the phone works, texts work, etc). If your alerting comes via email, you have bigger problems! Especially if it's your email server that's down.
The carriers are going to get your $50 to $120 a month
Are they? I bought my phone for about £50 and I'm on a pre-pay plan where I typically pay £2-3 each month. For £5/month I can get a light-use data package (enough for email and IM).
I'm not sure you're a typical use case. Besides, I'm a heavy data user, and a heavy voice user.
Keep telling yourself that. Despite all the promises, even the iPads are still computers with many typical computer problems. Anyone I know who actually got one instead of just marveling about it has felt the enthusiasm over the managed experience fade. It's still a novelty market, and while there are many people who strongly desire a tablet, that is mostly a testament to the failure of the PC platform, not proof that tablets can do what people want. As the insight that tablets are not the solution to all domestic computer problems seeps in, the pressure on the price will increase. Nobody wants to spend that kind of money on something that ultimately does not deliver and ends up as a glorified universal remote.
Funny, I sold my iPad to buy the iPad 2. You don't know ANYONE who still enjoys it? PS: It's an awfully large novelty market. Tens of millions and all. Funny, the one thing I don't use it for is as a glorified universal remote.
You made a $70 dollar downpayment and will be paying off the phone over the next two years.
Yeah. Had he only bought an unlocked phone instead, he wouldn't have a bill every month over the next two years by way of contract. He'd just spend a lot more up front and have a bill every month. The carriers are going to get your $50 to $120 a month. It's the only way they will let you on their network.
How does that make sense? Apple doesn't want NetFlix, MLB, NHL, WSJ, etc on their AppleTV, but cut a deal to make sure it's all pre-installed and on the home screen? Or did you mean they don't want AirPlay to allow anything to stream onto an AppleTV, but kinda accidentally made it and promoted it anyway? Or did you mean they prefer you buy everything from iTunes? Yeah, they probably would like that, but they don't care. It's not the force that drives their sales - hardware is, and always has been. Even the iOS app store, while hugely successful, and dwarfing profits from any other similar mobile app store is just a hook to get people to buy iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices. It's a rounding error on their quarterly profits.
Passive glasses seem to work fairly well. They cost about $20 a pop or you can just keep the ones from the movie theater. I have a 42" 3D set that ran me $699 and came with a couple of pairs. Took the little one to see Lion King 3D and now she has a pair sized for her eyes. The biggest issue is lack of content (I get three channels, only one of which is really worth watching, and it's not 24x7 yet). It's also broadcast in SBS, so there's technically a reduced resolution in one direction versus regular TV, but it's not like you get a lot of full 1080P content over the air, cable or satellite anyway. BluRays work fine, although they really need to stop charging these insane prices. No, I don't need 5 discs of Tron including a digital copy, a DVD, a 3D BluRay, etc. Just sell me a disc for $20.
That's only true if you pretend AppleTV doesn't have channels like NHL, MLB or NetFlix, and that AirPlay lets just about any app stream from just about any iOS device. They may not support jailbreaking (although it's trivial to do, and then you can run Plex, XBMC, etc), but they certainly let you watch content not sourced from iTunes. I haven't spent $1 in the last year on movies or TV shows from iTunes, yet I have an AppleTV.
(c) Siri. If your iOS Device supports Siri, which includes the dictation feature, these features allow you to make requests,
give commands and dictate text to your device using your voice. When you use Siri, the things you say will be recorded
and sent to Apple to process your requests. Your device will also send Apple other information, such as your first name
and nickname; the names, nicknames, and relationship with you (e.g., “my dad”) of your address book contacts; and song
names in your collection (collectively, your “User Data”). All of this data is used to help Siri understand you better and
recognize what you say. It is not linked to other data that Apple may have from your use of other Apple services. By using
Siri, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance,
processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data, to provide and improve Siri and
other Apple products and services. If you have Location Services turned on, the location of your iOS Device at the time
you make a request will also be sent to Apple to help Siri improve the accuracy of its response to your location-based
requests. You may disable the location-based functionality of Siri by going to the Location Services setting on your iOS
Device and turning off the individual location setting for Siri. You can also turn off Siri altogether at any time. To do so,
open Settings, tap General, tap Siri, and slide the Siri switch to “off”. You may also restrict the ability to use Siri under the
Restrictions Setting.
They don't need to "grasp for straws". Last time I checked iphones were selling quite well compared to Androids.
You must not be reading the marketshare numbers. They are still selling quite well, by themselves... but not compared to anything. There are still tons of iPhones selling but if you add up the numbers of all manufacturers of Android phones you see they aren't in the lead any more.
Yeah. Because as you already well know, Apple cares about "marketshare".
The power isn't in knowing HOW to do it. It's WHY and WHAT. Yes, if I told you I'd like it to understand "remember the milk when I leave home", you might be smart enough to build some tables that understands starting a phrase with remember means a "to do". You probably would have missed "when I leave home" to mean "around 9am, since tomorrow is Tuesday and that's when I leave", and you almost certainly wouldn't have though to build the geofencing feature, so that the reminder would actually fire as your car pulled back from the driveway.
But we'll know in a month, when Google adds it (I'm giving them a bit of extra time since it only takes "days".)
Yet the vast majority of the world's population does not talk in English in daily life. Chinese is probably the most widely spoken language, but then you still have the many different dialects.
I wonder how technologies like Siri manage the various versions of English, with sometimes opposite meanings to very similar expressions. Not to mention the varying accents.
The just released developer beta of iOS 5.01 specifically mentions improvements for Australian voice recognition, so I assume they are aware of things like accents, and different word meanings in different locales.
It's pretty good. They use Nuance, which I believe also powers Dragon's technology which is also cloud translated and quite accurate. (Well, at least the iOS version of Dragon does it in the cloud). FYI the new garmin's are way improved, and no longer need a button. They just listen for a phrase that defaults to "voice command" but can be anything you choose. The speed is better too, the newest models allow you to speak an entire address "123 Main Street, Anytown, NY" without pausing or waiting for prompts.
But seriously, for the folks with Siri, is it that useful? Do you use that often?
I've played around with the voice recognition features of droid, and they're more annoying than useful. Part of it is, the only time I'd really want any of those features is when driving. Otherwise, my fingers are much more accurate than my voice.
Siri has it's uses. Since I got the 4S, I have never once showed up at home, opened the door, said hello to the wife, said "oh shoot", turned around, got back in the car, and went to the Supermarket. Because now, I hang up from her at work, and tap my headset and say "remind me to buy milk when i leave work today". Could I do that on my iPhone without Siri? Yes, but it's slower to tap that out. Could I grab my iPad or my MacBook? Sure, but they may not be handy. Nor would that reminder fire at the precise moment I'm most likely to need it.
Siri's power is combining voice recognition with other features of iOS such as the geo fenced reminders. The data they churn in the cloud doesn't hurt either. For example, I no longer have to say "call john smith on his mobile" to call my dad (that's not his name, btw). Siri understands "call dad" means call my father, since it learned who that was. It also understands that if I don't say otherwise, I wish to use his mobile number. Is it useful? You betcha. The alternative is slower - take phone out of pocket, turn on screen, swipe to unlock, enter passcode if it's been a few minutes, click home if it's not home already, tap phone icon, tap favorites, tap "Dad - Mobile".
Even the weather stuff can come in handy. No, there's no benefit to asking "is it raining", we have windows and eyes. But if I'm packing for a trip, it absolutely is quicker to tap the headset and say "will I need an umbrella this week in Seattle?" then to find the remote, turn on the TV, try to remember what channel the weather is on, wait for the forecast to pop up. It's also, again, quicker than taking out a laptop, especially if it was off already. And it's faster than opening the phone, unlocking, entering the passcode, hitting home, tapping weather, and then adding in Seattle if it wasn't already in there.
The genius isn't MERELY that it understands your voice. It's that some of the early stuff they've already built in is logical and IS faster. "What's the best chinese restaurant near here?" will provide a Yelp list sorted by rating. What's the closest chinese restaurant will sort by distance. And it remembers where you were, so "find me chinese restaurants" can be followed up immediately with "which one is best?"
Reading and replying to text messages is handy in the car too, although not groundbreaking, certainly. Sending emails from the car is pretty nifty too in a pinch.
Yes, there isn't a native email application...but who cares? Browse to whatever webmail you're using and you're fine.
(Of course that doesn't work if you're not using something with a web front end. But even my old alma mater has a web front end for its email and it's got 1500 students.)
How's that work when I'm not in WiFi range. Or when I need to look up a number quickly? How do calendar alerts pop up?
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I see no evidence that George Cluney ever played a doctor. Perhaps you meant stormtrooper? Or did you mean to cite George Clooney?
Wasn't their whole printer strategy selling printers with low cost ink? So am I understanding this correctly - their camera business wasn't making money, so they entered into the printer business, but rather than sell low margin printers and high margin ink, they sell low margin printers and low margin ink?
"don't expect to buy one anytime soon."
You mean dont expect to buy a PRE MADE READY TO GO one anytime soon.
I built my 5th one last week and have another on the way.
starter Cost to build? $99.00 shipped for a used Stylistic ST5011d off of ebay with better specs than the ipad 1. Ubuntu installs nicely with small tweaks. Make it screaming fast by dropping in a 32 or 64 gig SSD drive instead of a spinning drive.
Total cost with new SSD, upgrade ram to 2 gig, and a new battery? $329.95 Oh and it kicks the crud out of any android tablet... Except most linux apps are NOT written for tablet use. so there are almost ZERO apps that have a smooth operation.
But it's a Ubuntu tablet, in my hands right now. and you can have one too!
You can have one now if you have the education to spend 3 hours putting one together.
Wait, it kicks the crud out of any Android tablet except there isn't a single app with smooth operation? So, find a used one on eBay, wait for it to arrive, then spend some time sticking in new ram, a new battery and a new hard drive, then install Ubuntu, and then notice that there are no optimized apps, and all existing apps run poorly? And that's just from your comments, and you seem to like the things!
I disagree with comment "The Roku had some major launch issues with their v2, and I gave up after a month of poor streaming and difficult-to-manage navigation."
Roku is very simple interface. I don't have Apple TV but I have Boxee and Google TV.
I agree with the part where he said he gave up. He probably did give up.
Have you looked into Plex? Very similar to XBMC and works with APTV, or you can install the whole Server/Application on a Mac Mini.
Windows version too now. Lots of XBMC skins are ported over for it, and it has native support for Hulu, Netflix, etc.
it integrates so well with my TV. It controls my cable box, Blue ray player, stereo, etc.... Until all content is streamed-- this is the perfect box to have. The Boxee, Apple TV, and Roku are all stand alone. This is Google's real advantage-- you can migrate over.
I've been through so many of these things in search of one solution, it's sad. Boxee has atrocious media tagging, even when you just ask it to scan your own NFO, TBN and JPG files. Roku has no support for playing local files over the network, except for the private Plex channel which transcodes. AppleTV is okay when jailbroke with XBMC installed, but still misses Hulu, and I don't like quitting XBMC to get back to Netflix and vice-versa. Google misses Hulu as well.
So far, I'm happiest with Plex on a Windows PC I built hooked up to a TV. Superb local and network media playback, great skins, support for Hulu, Pandora, RDIO, Netflix... really just missing Amazon VOD and I'd be thrilled.
I type 110 words per minute, and have no graphical ability at all. And use Apple. I used to type a smidge faster, but now I do all that copy and paste all day long so I guess I slowed down just a bit. And for the record, I flunked typing as a kid in school, since I refused to rest my hands on the home row, and told the teacher I would do it after she typed faster than me with more accuracy.
Thought 1: Why not just make the roof out of (polarized/tinted) glass?
Ever enter a building with more than one floor?
So what would you do if you got your eReader, but didn't have a computer to establish a wired connection to your router?
WPS in theory gives a built-in password that you can use to boot-strap the process with only wireless devices.
This exploit in WPS isn't due to a conceptual defect, it's an implementation defect that made the built-in PINs pretty much useless. So assuming that router vendors add in some rate-limiting, a proper-length PIN, or lock-outs for incorrect guesses (with a physical button to clear the lockout), the concept can be more secure than the average WPA password. It's ridiculous to suggest that only computer-savvy people should be able to use WIFI, and it's no longer an option to have the routers default to open access points.
There are that many people with eReaders and WiFi routers but not computers? Not only that, every wireless router I ever had came with a default SSID and admin password, and could be configured wirelessly.
Why should we believe Microsoft supports Mac OS/X for anything but blatantly self-serving reasons, when the customers have been trodden on time and again?
Oh come on. Even Apple only supports OS/X for blatantly self serving purposes.
The article says it's for email only (the phone works, texts work, etc). If your alerting comes via email, you have bigger problems! Especially if it's your email server that's down.
The carriers are going to get your $50 to $120 a month
Are they? I bought my phone for about £50 and I'm on a pre-pay plan where I typically pay £2-3 each month. For £5/month I can get a light-use data package (enough for email and IM).
I'm not sure you're a typical use case. Besides, I'm a heavy data user, and a heavy voice user.
Keep telling yourself that. Despite all the promises, even the iPads are still computers with many typical computer problems. Anyone I know who actually got one instead of just marveling about it has felt the enthusiasm over the managed experience fade. It's still a novelty market, and while there are many people who strongly desire a tablet, that is mostly a testament to the failure of the PC platform, not proof that tablets can do what people want. As the insight that tablets are not the solution to all domestic computer problems seeps in, the pressure on the price will increase. Nobody wants to spend that kind of money on something that ultimately does not deliver and ends up as a glorified universal remote.
Funny, I sold my iPad to buy the iPad 2. You don't know ANYONE who still enjoys it? PS: It's an awfully large novelty market. Tens of millions and all. Funny, the one thing I don't use it for is as a glorified universal remote.
You made a $70 dollar downpayment and will be paying off the phone over the next two years.
Yeah. Had he only bought an unlocked phone instead, he wouldn't have a bill every month over the next two years by way of contract. He'd just spend a lot more up front and have a bill every month. The carriers are going to get your $50 to $120 a month. It's the only way they will let you on their network.
But that's also surely not the way they want it.
How does that make sense? Apple doesn't want NetFlix, MLB, NHL, WSJ, etc on their AppleTV, but cut a deal to make sure it's all pre-installed and on the home screen? Or did you mean they don't want AirPlay to allow anything to stream onto an AppleTV, but kinda accidentally made it and promoted it anyway? Or did you mean they prefer you buy everything from iTunes? Yeah, they probably would like that, but they don't care. It's not the force that drives their sales - hardware is, and always has been. Even the iOS app store, while hugely successful, and dwarfing profits from any other similar mobile app store is just a hook to get people to buy iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices. It's a rounding error on their quarterly profits.
Passive glasses seem to work fairly well. They cost about $20 a pop or you can just keep the ones from the movie theater. I have a 42" 3D set that ran me $699 and came with a couple of pairs. Took the little one to see Lion King 3D and now she has a pair sized for her eyes. The biggest issue is lack of content (I get three channels, only one of which is really worth watching, and it's not 24x7 yet). It's also broadcast in SBS, so there's technically a reduced resolution in one direction versus regular TV, but it's not like you get a lot of full 1080P content over the air, cable or satellite anyway. BluRays work fine, although they really need to stop charging these insane prices. No, I don't need 5 discs of Tron including a digital copy, a DVD, a 3D BluRay, etc. Just sell me a disc for $20.
That's only true if you pretend AppleTV doesn't have channels like NHL, MLB or NetFlix, and that AirPlay lets just about any app stream from just about any iOS device. They may not support jailbreaking (although it's trivial to do, and then you can run Plex, XBMC, etc), but they certainly let you watch content not sourced from iTunes. I haven't spent $1 in the last year on movies or TV shows from iTunes, yet I have an AppleTV.
(c) Siri. If your iOS Device supports Siri, which includes the dictation feature, these features allow you to make requests, give commands and dictate text to your device using your voice. When you use Siri, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple to process your requests. Your device will also send Apple other information, such as your first name and nickname; the names, nicknames, and relationship with you (e.g., “my dad”) of your address book contacts; and song names in your collection (collectively, your “User Data”). All of this data is used to help Siri understand you better and recognize what you say. It is not linked to other data that Apple may have from your use of other Apple services. By using Siri, you agree and consent to Apple’s and its subsidiaries’ and agents’ transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data, to provide and improve Siri and other Apple products and services. If you have Location Services turned on, the location of your iOS Device at the time you make a request will also be sent to Apple to help Siri improve the accuracy of its response to your location-based requests. You may disable the location-based functionality of Siri by going to the Location Services setting on your iOS Device and turning off the individual location setting for Siri. You can also turn off Siri altogether at any time. To do so, open Settings, tap General, tap Siri, and slide the Siri switch to “off”. You may also restrict the ability to use Siri under the Restrictions Setting.
Nah, I don't even think they posted it ANYWHERE.
They don't need to "grasp for straws". Last time I checked iphones were selling quite well compared to Androids.
You must not be reading the marketshare numbers. They are still selling quite well, by themselves... but not compared to anything. There are still tons of iPhones selling but if you add up the numbers of all manufacturers of Android phones you see they aren't in the lead any more.
Yeah. Because as you already well know, Apple cares about "marketshare".
The power isn't in knowing HOW to do it. It's WHY and WHAT. Yes, if I told you I'd like it to understand "remember the milk when I leave home", you might be smart enough to build some tables that understands starting a phrase with remember means a "to do". You probably would have missed "when I leave home" to mean "around 9am, since tomorrow is Tuesday and that's when I leave", and you almost certainly wouldn't have though to build the geofencing feature, so that the reminder would actually fire as your car pulled back from the driveway.
But we'll know in a month, when Google adds it (I'm giving them a bit of extra time since it only takes "days".)
It seems Siri is English-only.
Yet the vast majority of the world's population does not talk in English in daily life. Chinese is probably the most widely spoken language, but then you still have the many different dialects.
I wonder how technologies like Siri manage the various versions of English, with sometimes opposite meanings to very similar expressions. Not to mention the varying accents.
The just released developer beta of iOS 5.01 specifically mentions improvements for Australian voice recognition, so I assume they are aware of things like accents, and different word meanings in different locales.
It's pretty good. They use Nuance, which I believe also powers Dragon's technology which is also cloud translated and quite accurate. (Well, at least the iOS version of Dragon does it in the cloud). FYI the new garmin's are way improved, and no longer need a button. They just listen for a phrase that defaults to "voice command" but can be anything you choose. The speed is better too, the newest models allow you to speak an entire address "123 Main Street, Anytown, NY" without pausing or waiting for prompts.
But seriously, for the folks with Siri, is it that useful? Do you use that often?
I've played around with the voice recognition features of droid, and they're more annoying than useful. Part of it is, the only time I'd really want any of those features is when driving. Otherwise, my fingers are much more accurate than my voice.
Siri has it's uses. Since I got the 4S, I have never once showed up at home, opened the door, said hello to the wife, said "oh shoot", turned around, got back in the car, and went to the Supermarket. Because now, I hang up from her at work, and tap my headset and say "remind me to buy milk when i leave work today". Could I do that on my iPhone without Siri? Yes, but it's slower to tap that out. Could I grab my iPad or my MacBook? Sure, but they may not be handy. Nor would that reminder fire at the precise moment I'm most likely to need it.
Siri's power is combining voice recognition with other features of iOS such as the geo fenced reminders. The data they churn in the cloud doesn't hurt either. For example, I no longer have to say "call john smith on his mobile" to call my dad (that's not his name, btw). Siri understands "call dad" means call my father, since it learned who that was. It also understands that if I don't say otherwise, I wish to use his mobile number. Is it useful? You betcha. The alternative is slower - take phone out of pocket, turn on screen, swipe to unlock, enter passcode if it's been a few minutes, click home if it's not home already, tap phone icon, tap favorites, tap "Dad - Mobile".
Even the weather stuff can come in handy. No, there's no benefit to asking "is it raining", we have windows and eyes. But if I'm packing for a trip, it absolutely is quicker to tap the headset and say "will I need an umbrella this week in Seattle?" then to find the remote, turn on the TV, try to remember what channel the weather is on, wait for the forecast to pop up. It's also, again, quicker than taking out a laptop, especially if it was off already. And it's faster than opening the phone, unlocking, entering the passcode, hitting home, tapping weather, and then adding in Seattle if it wasn't already in there.
The genius isn't MERELY that it understands your voice. It's that some of the early stuff they've already built in is logical and IS faster. "What's the best chinese restaurant near here?" will provide a Yelp list sorted by rating. What's the closest chinese restaurant will sort by distance. And it remembers where you were, so "find me chinese restaurants" can be followed up immediately with "which one is best?"
Reading and replying to text messages is handy in the car too, although not groundbreaking, certainly. Sending emails from the car is pretty nifty too in a pinch.
Steve Jobs may not have been a great CEO (depends on your yardstick)
I'm sure there are exactly 0 shareholders who think he's a bad CEO.
Yes, there isn't a native email application...but who cares? Browse to whatever webmail you're using and you're fine.
(Of course that doesn't work if you're not using something with a web front end. But even my old alma mater has a web front end for its email and it's got 1500 students.)
How's that work when I'm not in WiFi range. Or when I need to look up a number quickly? How do calendar alerts pop up?