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Posted by bbrv on 03-Nov-2003 13:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 110 (DaveP): OK, Dave fair enough and turning more serious because you are making us...;-)
Here is an example of something we posted recently:
BBRV: "Call to arms" - Turning attention outside this community : Comment 103 of 103
Posted by bbrv (Trusted user ) on 27-Oct-2003 13:30:44
You guys are still missing the point...
Read this:
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/ida/jsps/index.jsp?fuseAction=showDocument&parent=news&documentID=1647
Think CHANGE, because it will happen with or without you. When the world begins looking for the Microsoft work-arounds things start to happen (and are!).
Also, do not miss this:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/031027/na_fin_us_file_swapping_alternative_2.html
The aggressive tactics of the music industry have only served to accelerate the pace of innovation, the goal of which seeks to avoid the barriers to what the market clearly wants -- declines in sharing (thievery, stealing, trespassing, etc. -- sound like a neighborhood?) on Kazaa not withstanding. Surely, there is much more to come. And, after that: music, movies, etc.
This is all running in a good way to a Pegasos TiVo like device that is *much* more than a PVR.
You see in the end the there will be something better making all this work. Maybe like this:
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/home/03/0625_planetlab/hmcap.html
The thin client server model and all the intelligence on the network can work for everything in the PlanetLab model. In this way we just carry around a smart card or some RFID keychain and do what we need to do where we are and...poof! Think public phones plus...
But, we still think there has to be something -- like a GameBoy, a cell phone, a television that fuses the various experiences into a personal package to be what you want, when and where you want it. If we can keep things moving, and IF we can attract NEW developers AND engender a positive, diligent and resourceful spirit we will make it to this end state.
Creativity and Reactivity are written using the same letters...;-)
R&B
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The following week we announced this:
http://www.genesi.lu/press_20031030.php
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And, we have posted this on numerous occassions:
New Computer to New Consumer Product
As Apple Computer Inc., Genesi owns hardware, an operating system and a wide variety of applications. The Pegasos is contrasted to a PowerMac, and MorphOS to MacOS. MorphOS comes bundled with a number of applications including an office package, web browser, email client and movie and music players. Video games have also been developed for MorphOS. Most importantly, the number of applications and games running on the Pegasos runs into the thousands because the Pegasos also works with applications from the Linux, MacOS, AmigaOS, BeOS, and BSD operating system environments. The Pegasos is building block #1 to any competent computing environment and the necessary tool required by the developer support enlisted to customize the platform for consumer use. A Pegasos computer is a desktop machine. A Pegasos computer enclosed in a fan-less VCR-like size case becomes a consumer product. The Pegasos operates equally well with a television screen or a computer monitor. The Pegasos comes with its own file sharing and downloading programs -- music, movies, video games – a preference is selected, a source found, the entertainment begins. The technology is invisible to the entertainment experience. The consumer manages the experience through an easily understood user interface with a remote control or through a web browser and a keyboard for more sophisticated users.
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...and this to:
Strategic Approach
The Pegasos has been initially targeted at the computer “geek” market. Computer software developers, embedded system technicians and suave computer users that enjoy developing unique computing solutions define this market. There are currently Pegasos computers being used in 34 countries. In the next marketing phase, the Company intends to leverage the worldwide interest in the Linux to further draw attention the Pegasos. Genesi has developed a bootable version of open-source Debian Linux, PegXLin, to be offered with the Pegasos. Based on UNIX, Linux is fast becoming one of the world’s most popular operating systems while achieving the backing of IBM, HP and Sun. Open-source Linux allows a “community-at-large” to develop and accelerate a platform’s performance and quality for the mass market. Linux is available for the Pegasos platform from a growing number of distributions, giving the Pegasos owner several choices from which to choose. In the meanwhile, MorphOS is present and exposed to users through the notoriety of Linux.
Simultaneously, there are a number of other very strong trends in the IT market that will positively contribute to a successful broader market introduction of the Pegasos including: 1) a move away from Microsoft based products, particularly in Europe, where a number of governments have mandated that Linux or another fully featured possibility replace Windows for official computer use, 2) market saturation, where the reasons to upgrade are beginning to sound increasingly empty - why upgrade if you cannot notice the difference, and 3) the growing emphasis on mobility which remains dominated by power consumption and efficiency (i.e., heat) issues as they relate to cost and use.
Business Strategy
Genesi’s business plan is based on continuing to seed the “geek” market with a flexible, forward compatible and scalable technology, while progressively targeting the markets that are driving the penetration of the PowerPC into the broader consumer market. For example, the worldwide state-of-the-art in the satellite television technology is a set-top box based on the PowerPC. The Nintendo GameCube and the TiVo are both consumer products based on a PowerPC. These are consumer electronic products AND computers that are restricted to specific functions to reduce cost. It is Genesi’s position that when these market forces are coupled with the upheaval triggered by Linux in the computer industry, the PowerPC is poised to become a commodity component at a much lower cost that will soon challenge the dominance of Intel-based processors because they are more efficient and powerful cycle for cycle. The Pegasos and MorphOS are well positioned to take advantage of the sweeping changes anticipated.
Recently, a large European media company commissioned Genesi to develop a low cost PowerPC based digital terrestrial television set-top box based on the Pegasos platform and MorphOS. In turn, Genesi developed a new kind of device that achieves both consumer electronic television related requirements and computer industry performance standards. The device manages digital television viewing with expanded interactive features using instructions embedded in the digital television signal that can modify the information stored in the memory of the device. With the addition of a broadband Internet connection, the device combines all the features of a computer and the Internet with all the possibilities created by the huge amount of data that can be transmitted by the digital television signal, whether terrestrially or by satellite. At €299/unit the device is a fully functional computer that can be used to find and play music, movies or video games (irrelevant of the source). With a web cam the Pegasos could function as a videophone; with WIFI it can feed multiple devices in the home.
As the core technology of the Pegasos/MorphOS is more efficient and powerful the total system cost requirements for components, memory, and power can be reduced. More can be done with less and for less. Genesi owns MorphOS and develops and modifies it internally. There are no royalties to be paid to third parties, further reducing the cost of use when compared to other available systems. The Pegasos can be reduced to a handheld device, which corresponds to the evolution IBM has fashioned for the PPC. MorphOS is ideally suited for this environment and would carry all features discussed forward to the mobile environment. The Pegasos handheld could offer much more than an iPod. What works on the desktop works anywhere. Suddenly, a mobile video telephone would also be possible. The hardware is the same, just smaller. The operating system requirements are the same. As Apple sells the hardware of the iPod (music is incidental), Genesi moves one step further and facilitates convenience, allowing something already being done by users to be done more easily, anywhere. Genesi’s technology can become an enabler to the powerful forces of communication and entertainment, ushering in a whole new generation of digital distribution.
======enough already!=======
A word about confrontation on these threads....heat in chemistry is known as a catalyst. It works with people too. We want to see the reactions. We want to see who we are dealing with -- a petulant child, a wise old man, or an intelligent person who just does not understand the message because of the messenger. And, again, thanks for playing! :-D
Anyway, have to get to work. It is 0630 in beautiful San Diego today!
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