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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 Oppressor on 01-Dec-2003 11:26 GMT | In reply to Comment 40 (bbrv):
Hi Bill Buck and Rachel Velasco
> Come on Oppressor, show your stuff. Make an effort! :-D Post your
ideas here for the rest of us to review and discuss. Are you a man or
an anonymous coward?
Nice try, but in your simple hormone-weeping logic I prefer to stay an
anonymous coward... If the forums were for members only, I'd simply
call it quits and wander away. I'd welcome this to happen. These
forums appear as if there were hundereds of users, while the majority
of the noise is made (in this order) by you, a few of your monkeys and
a few people in opposition to you. I'm telling you a secret: Poking
with a cane in an ant hole isn't enough for making a business.
I'd like to discuss Amiga-related issues here, nostalgic stuff,
advocacy, software and hardware for my Amigas. The succession wars in
this ex-market are a history of constant failure. Companies like
Phase5, VillageTronic and H&P were the ancestors of the split today. I
don't know what happened behind the curtains these days - and I don't
care, as the outcome were completely irrelevant PPC coprocessor
boards, rivaling graphic card systems, questionable use, a plethora
of technical problems and an undeterminable future.
I care for technology, software architecture, integration, building
bridges, making things compatible to each other, and not to constantly
fragment and initiate new splits. That means work, hard work, both
technically and socially. Reloading webpages thirty times an hour and
vomiting marketing babble into forum's just isn't enough :) We had the
Digital Heaven and Amiverse here already. DigiBoxTV doesn't add to the
record, as every self-respecting geek I know has built one already...
You're acting like the revenant of Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss, just a
bit more bluntly. And you're only the follow-up business failure.
Laaaaaame :)
If you care for MorphOS and the Pegasos technology, simply don't get
on peoples' nerves. Bring on the eats. I repeat myself: You will be
rewarded by this community for your deeds. The IBM thing for example
appears like an important step in the right direction, but you are
missing the point: You'd be called imbeciles if you wouldn't achieve
even that. The logo in itself is of no interest - even for a
non-marketing person it's close to obvious that IBM is happy to spill
out its logo for free if you just sign up. (Hey, btw. Why did this
take that long? Please explain... :)
I really suspect (read: have the subjective, personal opinion) that
you act like on steroids because you have something to hide from the
audience. I suspect it's THE failure already, as you are constantly
burning money and generate close to zilch income, but I'm not the Rich
Woods kind of guy to waste my time stalking prey down physically :)
Keep on, it starts getting interesting to me. |
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