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2009-01-10 , 22:17
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
I am talking about the internet being displayed as the internet... not some dumbed down mobile version. As far as i know... the 770 was the first to do it.
Yes, 770 was first commercial protable internet device. But the general press will (already have) attribute the segment to Apple.
 
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apple, the instant watermark for any market it enters...
 
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Missing option: Xerox PARC

They actually didn't do portable stuff, AFAIK, but they should have!
 

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Benson, they did do portable stuff.

Its just a matter of scale.
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Missing option: Xerox PARC

They actually didn't do portable stuff, AFAIK, but they should have!
DEC VAX, DEC Alpha, SGI Onyx/RE2, ...

...but not really portable...
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Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
Benson, they did do portable stuff.

Its just a matter of scale.
Hell, some unknown society thousands of years ago somehow moved solid stone weighing hundreds of tons, so yes indeed, matter of scale.

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Unfortunately history will remember Assus as innovators, because of their EEE. This was first cheap portable device that was was sold so much.
Actually they came last (first Nokia then Apple and after them Assus) but they crash the market and almost every one in the world has seen or even have an Assus EEE PC.
Nokia was the pioneers, but world was changed from Assus.

PS: Nevertheless I have N800, because I prefer Quality instead of Quantity :-)
 
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Heh. Asus wasn't even trying -- they surprised themselves with the market segments that were buying their edu/kid-stuff machines.
 
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Hell, some unknown society thousands of years ago somehow moved solid stone weighing hundreds of tons...
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They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips.
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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Heh. Asus wasn't even trying -- they surprised themselves with the market segments that were buying their edu/kid-stuff machines.
Ironically, OLPC just fired 50% of their employees.

]Being overconfident and then not able to sell or break through is worse than being underconfident and have a product for which there is demand for while being able to deliver this demand.

We all knew there were huge gaps between the PC, the phone and the laptop. These gaps are now smaller, but they're still there. Many tried, many failed.

Just like some corporations knew there was room for touchscreen devices.

SUN tried thin clients too back in the 90s (using Java), and grid computing. Failed. Now they're succeeding. Sometimes the market just isn't ready for it?
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