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Thread ID: 136179	2014-01-30 04:53:00	The Oracle says that business applications should be as easy to use as Facebook is.	Webdevguy (17166)	PC World Chat

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1366417	2014-01-30 04:53:00	According to Mr America's Cup, business applications can no longer be designed to be complicated and hard to use. If businesses continue down that path they will struggle to attract the new generation of social networkers who have grown up using Facebook and Twitter. www.computerworld.co.nz	Webdevguy (17166)
1366418	2014-01-30 06:09:00	So they want to make them run like a piece of crap and not allow you own your own data once uploaded and have the option to sell your details Yeah right	gary67 (56)
1366419	2014-01-30 07:57:00	should be so easy to use that even a CEO can figure them out. So hes basically says CEO's of companies are dummies and have no ability to think ?	wainuitech (129)
1366420	2014-01-30 08:17:00	So hes basically says CEO's of companies are dummies and have no ability to think ? Well some old school ones might not when it comes to doing the day to day stuff on computer. But with regards to talking strategy and corporate governance and budget stuff I'd say they would be very good. Iwould imagine though that most CEOs these days would be fairly competent with tech stuff.	Webdevguy (17166)
1366421	2014-01-30 08:18:00	So they want to make them run like a piece of crap and not allow you own your own data once uploaded and have the option to sell your details Yeah right I think the comment was more about usability than who owns the data you just uploaded	Webdevguy (17166)
1366422	2014-01-30 08:50:00	So hes basically says CEO's of companies are dummies and have no ability to think ?Sounds about right :p	pcuser42 (130)
1366423	2014-01-30 09:10:00	So hes basically says CEO's of companies are dummies and have no ability to think ? No ability to think, perhaps, but the ability to get paid lots... Hmm.. So who are the dummies?	Webdevguy (17166)
1366424	2014-01-30 10:56:00	A typical CEO wouldn't know anything about Oracle. That's the IT dept maybe not even the CFO. Seriously though things generally are getting easier and easier to use. Customers like tablets and phones, all that automation in a vehicle, you can see glimpses of Windows 8 as it is being geared to more a user/consumer than a technician. Digital video/cameras Wifi to the phone/tablet/laptop and download or upload to the net. Wired to the internet 24/7 at home or on the handset.	Nomad (952)
1366425	2014-01-31 07:48:00	Well, I hate Fbook, so I'm not keen on anything that looks to that as a model to follow. Having said that, I've recently got to use an iPad a bit, and once you get past the tech (which is sweeeeeet), they're actually pretty damn horrible when you can't do anything useful with them in terms of apps and config (unless you want to pay, and pay, and pay). Too locked down, too little to config to the individuals tastes, too few free apps, damned annoying inability in many cases to access a right-click set of options, damned annoying browser. My overall impression of apps on the iPad: Lame. Would I want to follow the iPad and Fbook crowd? No. Please don't turn productivity apps into these toy idle-time apps.	Paul.Cov (425)
1366426	2014-01-31 09:35:00	Well, I hate Fbook, so I'm not keen on anything that looks to that as a model to follow. Having said that, I've recently got to use an iPad a bit, and once you get past the tech (which is sweeeeeet), they're actually pretty damn horrible when you can't do anything useful with them in terms of apps and config (unless you want to pay, and pay, and pay). Too locked down, too little to config to the individuals tastes, too few free apps, damned annoying inability in many cases to access a right-click set of options, damned annoying browser. My overall impression of apps on the iPad: Lame. Would I want to follow the iPad and Fbook crowd? No. Please don't turn productivity apps into these toy idle-time apps. That's kinda the point of an iPad, they were designed to remove the tech aspects normally required from the user experience. Baring in mind that a larger percentage of consumers wouldn't regard themselves as "geeks". Of course if you wanted to get technical with a tablet maybe you could consider writing an app in one of the various developer kits that enables a task or provides a solution to a problem. I think a lot of the resistance to tablet adoption into the enterprise field has come from the traditional geeky IT dept who found that their power of IT decision making has been removed from their control or shifted in favour of the workers (end users). As to idle time toy apps? I think what Larry was trying to say is that apps need to be designed with the end user in mind and not the geeky but socially in adequate IT geek.	Webdevguy (17166)
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