Logos and Mobility
A new friend from Logos might get on me a bit for this, but I did tell him that I wanted to post about something he showed me when we got together Friday night :)
My friend had a Samsung Q1 UMPC (review of this at Brighthand) with him and explained to me how the paradigm of Logos and the TabletPC led him to really embrace mobile computing. Being that we were both of the background of developers, some of the conversation got technical, but the more interesting part of things is where he spoke about ownership, and how many of the principles of Web 2.0 take that away from the user for the sake of short term profits.
Needless to say, I was very impressed at his disection of the marketplace, and what it means for uses both now and in the future. Of course, he is highly invested into Logos, which wants to keep the paradigm of ownership with the user, rather than with the company or publisher.
Getting some back to the mobile tech, he told me about how he uses Logos as a reader, moreso than a sermon prep application. With the number of books that he has on the Samsung Q1, in addition to the size and mobility of the device, he is able to essentially take his Bibles with him, and read in a manner that gives him the knowledge of a serminary's library at his fingertips, but the usability of a Moleskin with the touchscreen.
That's pretty much one of the best applications of desktop Bible applications in a mobile setting I've seen to date. How do you use your electronic Bible solutions and what do you feel about the concept of ownership as it relates to having all resources in your possession versus a website where you subscribe and rent them?
Labels: Bible, Logos, ownership, tablet PC, tech, web application
posted by Antoine @ 8/27/2008 10:00:00 AM
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I too had a Samsung Q1, though mine was the Ultra (newer version of same machine which had a keyboard and Vista). It just wasn't powerful enough for me and I couldn't justify having both this and a notebook computer. So I sold it to buy an HP TX1410 table PC. That has me hooked on tablets. The fact that it didn't have a active digitizer made me sell it and get the HP Tx2525 which does have the Active Digitizer from Wacom. I now use OneNote to read books that I have exported from Logos or WordSearch. Great way to read in bed at night or on the road. Plus my margin notes are searchable. I hyperlink to the page of a particular item that inspires a sermon or bible study idea in OneNote. It has helped me a great deal in finding stuff in my huge digital library and to easily find it later when I am ready to teach or preach on that subject.
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