7 May
2002
7 May
'02
4:49 a.m.
Paul Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 7 May 2002, Douglas H. Quebbeman wrote:
As usual, marketing people have it bass-ackwards. What you want to do is
to turn appliances into computers, and that's what's happening.
Everything else will flow from that, given access, which is where the
battle is.
But this is classiccmp, not scificomp.
jbdigriz
so that nearly anyone can use it? And are you
aware that in
the minds of marketing people, the market is *far* from
saturated, as there are still lots of people who never use
them and don't have them. So you can expect another order of
magnitude of dumbing-down...
In the minds of marketing people, what seems to be needed is making the
computer into an appliance. I don't see how this idea is compatible with
the flexibility current users have come to expect