| [Rant] ...another interesting article | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 30-Nov-2003 18:32 GMT by bbrv | 56 comments
View flat
View list | |
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.
|
|
| List of all comments to this article |
| ...another interesting article : Comment 53 of 56 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by minator on 01-Dec-2003 15:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 50 (Trizt):
>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.
So you don't agree - except you do ?
I think I know what you mean, one thing I have been thinking is that we may end up with just one box but it can act in different ways.
This is the alternative to convergance and is I think one of the possibilities but I'm not sure about it. It could end up being "a jack of all trades but a master of none", that said get the price right and you'll sell truck loads of em.
>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.
Hmm... You're giving me ideas here :-D
>In the end we may even end with a cellular which makes everything, with a hologram projector ;)
We're well on the way already:
http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=520 |
|
| List of all comments to this article (continued) |
|
- User Menu
-
- About ANN archives
- The ANN archives is powered by #AmigaZeux. It was updated daily (news last: 22-Oct-2004; comments last: 18-May-2005).
ANN.lu was created, previously owned and maintained by Christian Kemp, www.ckemp.com.
- Contribute
- Not possible at this time!
- Search ANN archives
- Advanced search
- Hosting
- ANN.lu was hosted by Dreamhost. Sign up through this link, mention "ckemp" as referrer and he will get a 10% commission on any account you purchase.
Please show your appreciation for any past, present and future work on ANN.lu by making a contribution via PayPal.
|
