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| Posted on 30-Nov-2003 18:32 GMT by bbrv | 56 comments
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Here is a New York Times Magazine article about Apple, the iPod, marketing, product development and management.
We contend that this Community can produce a Super TiVo-like device that integrates the network into the use of the content itself. 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: a black box. The Pegasos black box operates equally well with a television screen or a computer monitor. The Pegasos black box could come with its own file sharing and downloading programs -- music, movies, video games – a preference is selected, a source found, the entertainment begins. The technology would be 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. As the hub of the Home Entertainment Center high fidelity sound/audio can now be introduced through the 24/7 broadband Internet connection to bring existing home stereo equipment back into use. Here the Pegasos black box can be positioned to be a consumer product that would do to a TV set what MP3 did to music – any show any time.
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| Posted by Trizt on 01-Dec-2003 09:30 GMT | In reply to Comment 41 (smp266):
The MMBox is a way to merge computer adn tv, usually most people have a smaller computer monitor than they have TV (just counting inches, not the quality of the picture) and really would like to have a large picture as possible while watching "telly". This makes that change the computer monitor to a TV and you will make most people quite happy and if you can do everything with one machine, wow, that means you don't have to get up from your soffa at all, more than to the fridge.
I would guess that in the future the MMbox will be in every house, maybe connected to one or two plasmascreens (before that happens, the prices on plasma screens needs to drop quite a lot, at least here in sweden, I guess the prices in Hong Kong are already on a acceptable level), next step may be voice controll and after that maybe integrate everything to the system like lights, heat, phones...
But I do not think it will kill the computer, I think people still wants a bit privacy and that you don't get that feel when you are in the livingroom infron of that 52" screen. |
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