Thread: Thundering galloping stupidity!
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Smiley Dan is offline Smiley Dan
2005-12-02 , 13:03
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I'm finding it difficult to really validate the opinion in the original post. Most of what is written really contradicts my understanding. For example:

In a similar fashion, this snobbery towards the 770 is paradoxical. Sure, it's not an Uber Geek device. It's not an OQO. It's not even a Palm Lifedrive. It lacks a hard drive. It is plainly a 1.0 device. But so was the original Palm. (I won't cite the original "Palm-Size PCs" -- which weren't even 1.0 devices!) And the original Palm went on to create an entire new way of doing things.
My opinion would be that the 770 is _far_ more of an "uber geek" device than *any* of the devices listed. OQO is a big block of potatoes. The LifeDrive is just a palm with a big hard drive. Furthermore the platform of the 770 is far more "geek" than any of the devices above.

We're moving away from a model where all the smarts have to be on the device. Yesterday's announcement of Oboe for instance... who needs a portable music player with a HDD if you have an Internet connection, via 3G or WiMAX?

Currently the raison d'etre of the 770 is Web browsing. It does it in a way no other mobile device (of its form factor) has even come close to. It also does it at a low price, and it provides an extensible platform. It's the platform, and the tried and tested technologies that leverages like X, ssh and so forth that will enable the 770 (and it's successors) to step out from a narrow Web tablet story into a distributed computing one.