On Fri, 22 Apr 2016, Chris Hanson wrote:
2. Sony eVilla
BeIA appliance using some kind of (crappy) built-in mail
application.
Were these ever actually shipped? I only recall hearing that they
were in
development.
Not that I'm aware of. My friend Takeda-san and I were fiddling with one
he had and he was a Sony Playstation developer who was able to get me a
tour of the Sony building in Ginza (Tokyo) during off-hours, so he must
have had some juice with Sony. I met him when I worked for a Japanese
company and used to travel there a lot. However, the place where we did
the fiddling was actually in Las Vegas. I was there at the same time as
he was for two different conferences. He had a whole room full of toys
that year. I think he wanted to show the device to me because he knew I
liked BeOS.
-Swift