Amiga - What If It Were Today....

[tone007]

Cobblers... they're toys/gimmicks that sad gits buy just to be trendy, how do you do D.T.P. on an I phone ? where to you plug in the printer ?, where's the video output to connect up to a monitor ? etc.. etc..

As I say nothing but toys/gimmicks that mugs buy just to try and look cool, sad really...

Full desktop publishing might be tricky on such a small screen, but there are photo manipulation tools for the major smartphones as well as word processing/spreadsheet/presentation applications. http://mobile.photoshop.com/android/ http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_connect_suite_android/

Printing is easy via WiFi or Bluetooth.

Video out?  Yes. http://www.phonenews.com/motorola-announces-motoroi-android-device-with-hdmi-output-9996/

Android, in particular, is based on Linux, which is a real, powerful operating system for computers.  It's unfortunate, but just about any smartphone on the market today has more processing power than the most powerful classic Amiga.

[tone007]

Yeah, but how do you fit a poxy mobile phone into a tower !!!

I prefer fitting it in my pocket and bringing it out while sitting at the bar to shop for things on eBay, Craigslist, check out what's going on here on Amiga.org, price compare items between different retail stores, get directions and have them read to me turn by turn over the car's stereo speakers, find a nice restaurant in the middle of nowhere, take before and after pictures of the wild boar ribs I ordered, tether to my laptop/netbook via WiFi to provide internet on the rare occasion I can't get what I need done on the phone itself...

Handy little things.

Wild boar ribs:

[tone007]

But I think by now you'll have realised that I'm just a grumpy 40 something old fart who can't stand all these new fangled devices that have taken over the world today from me beloved miggies, and quite possibly going through some sort of mid life crisis...

If anything, the smartphones are taking over the world from the machines that took over the world from the Amigas, those being PCs and Macs.

..not that they're taking over the world.  Nothing beats typing on a full sized keyboard.

[tone007]

Technology progresses.  It may not always get more interesting or awe-inspiring since the fundamentals were set years ago, but it's always going to change.

[tone007]

I said the technology is progressing, I didn't say anything about the people.