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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 14:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 49 (minator):
> On the other hand it was obvious that TVs and PCs will converge but I'm
> actually becoming less convinced by this now.
I do disagree here, I think with time people will change habbits, just look how people uses their phones today compared to say mid 80's, nowdays every kid seems to have a cellular, they call each other, send messages, caht and even play games on it.
Even if the user isn't needing the MMBox, the need for it will be created by the manufactors and you will notice that you can't get a standard TV anymore, you are forced to get a MMBox with a special monitor. Just look at the home electronics, try to get a music system, tv, vcr, dvd in black, most of the things are just in silver, this isn't for the customers wants only silver colored electronics (at least I know pritty many who don't want silver), but more a trend that is forced on ous.
Regadles who does somethign, I think they will get though competition from Sony and other big companies who can seel their boxes without profit (this is a lot more difficult for a small company, if they want to stay). Another bad thing I belive that the big companies will do, is to intrioduce new features as slowly as possible, so that they can then make profit when they sell the next generation of MMBoxes.
I do belive we still will continue to have our computers, I see the MMBox more as a replacement of the TV/VCR/TV-game, a new generation of applictaion that the whole family can gather around, but things you want to do more privatly, like chat with your friends, write your reports and so on, you still will do with a computer, or a private console.
This gave me another idea... sooner or later most people will have a cellular with a builtin hand-held that may use bluethoot, what about having a bluethoot network, so when someone gets "home" will be linked to the MMBox, informing about mails that has come, maybe even telling when the kids was home last time, lets you backup data to the MMBox from the phone and so on. In a way the cellular could become the private console for the system, of course it would be a limited console, but you could easilly carry it with you.
In the end we may even end with a cellular which makes everything, with a hologram projector ;) |
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