Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 03:51:23 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Heiko Recktenwald" <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Cc: "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Innovation and Promotion Message-ID: <005a01c12faf$60d5ef60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108281150260.542-100000@moritz.alleswirdgelber>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Heiko Recktenwald [mailto:uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de] >Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:53 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: David Johnson; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: Innovation and Promotion > > >> What you really mean is "promoting their technology to the >simplistic customer >> that just wants to to surf the web and read their email, want >> a desktop that isn't ugly, and want their games to run smoothly and >> quickly." Yes, that's true. There's a very big question of applicability >> here, though. > >But is this vision really realistic ? Computers *are* complicated. >No OS can change that. > So are automobiles but with enough money it looks like they have been reduced to a steering wheel, gas pedal, and a fancy computer that controls heat, A/c, light, brakes, engine, seatbelt, garage door opener, entertainment center and coffee maker. And one day you won't even have the steering wheel or the gas pedal and even the person with an total IQ no higher than 65 can jump in the car and drive off. Isn't technology grand? :-) (although as the average driver's IQ seems to be heading in that direction, perhaps this is a good thing. ;-) Seriously, the poster has a lot of validity in a lot of what he's posted. He is right on the mark in that the Linux people really are trying to make Linux palatable to the Windows-fodder-raised users. My only concern with it is that you cannot continually simplify the definition of the market forever and have it still retain meaning. His undoing is in trying to overgeneralize. People do want solutions, yes, but everyone's definition of a solution does not fit into the same shoebox. >The other way would be the end of the universal computer, like Organisers >or handies. > We are there already - but the market still sees value in the universal computer so it hasn't gone away, instead the specific computers have just ended up accentuating the universal one. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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