I have a friend who badly needs to find a new job but doesn't have a computer. There's practically no such thing as a paper job application anymore, and even if there were, she'd have trouble using them because she has no car and not much spare time during business hours away from her present hellish full-time job.
She does have a phone with internet access, but the tiny screen and simplified software aren't useful for this. Job application sites are designed for bigger screen sizes and use various types of interactive software that aren't part of normal "browsing". (They don't even always work on normal computers from one browser to another; I've had applications not work with one browser and then work when I did the same thing in another one.)
So, what about other choices...
Tablets: Bigger screen, but they still run pretty much the same software as phones, right? That could be a deal-killer by itself if the job application you're trying to use just can't be used on your device. And when you're typing, the keyboard eats some of the screen, and there's still a purchase price just to get the thing... but could this save money by using the same "data plan" as a phone or being part of a combo deal with the phone?
Netbooks: Looked like notebook computers but apparently only existed for internet access and didn't cost as much... Are these still around? The full-size screen and separate keyboard are good, but would they be able to handle whatever various & sundry software gimmicks the online job applications threw at them? Do they run standard PC software or some other specialized small-market proprietary stuff that might not know how to handle sites with uncommon oddities in them? (And if the hardware is compatible with regular PC software, then what makes them netbooks instead of just ordinary notebooks; what keeps them from running non-net-related programs?) Can they use cellphone networks & data plans? Have tablets killed them?
She does have a phone with internet access, but the tiny screen and simplified software aren't useful for this. Job application sites are designed for bigger screen sizes and use various types of interactive software that aren't part of normal "browsing". (They don't even always work on normal computers from one browser to another; I've had applications not work with one browser and then work when I did the same thing in another one.)
So, what about other choices...
Tablets: Bigger screen, but they still run pretty much the same software as phones, right? That could be a deal-killer by itself if the job application you're trying to use just can't be used on your device. And when you're typing, the keyboard eats some of the screen, and there's still a purchase price just to get the thing... but could this save money by using the same "data plan" as a phone or being part of a combo deal with the phone?
Netbooks: Looked like notebook computers but apparently only existed for internet access and didn't cost as much... Are these still around? The full-size screen and separate keyboard are good, but would they be able to handle whatever various & sundry software gimmicks the online job applications threw at them? Do they run standard PC software or some other specialized small-market proprietary stuff that might not know how to handle sites with uncommon oddities in them? (And if the hardware is compatible with regular PC software, then what makes them netbooks instead of just ordinary notebooks; what keeps them from running non-net-related programs?) Can they use cellphone networks & data plans? Have tablets killed them?
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