There is a WSJ article today, which essentially covers the same issues we discussed last week. If you can read it, go ahead and have a look: Time to Leave the Laptop Behind (that link should work for a few days).
When you get there please turn to Page 26 (or just read the article here). That really is the other half of the deal. The big screen home telepresence and entertainment center all tied into a package of enterprise support that stays with you or that goes with you. Sounds like @me.com? You bet.
How about the ED, do you remember this STB?
BTW, that picture is from 1996.
There are too many set-top boxes now, but a fully configurable software platform in the home, well, that looks like the direction things are going. The more all things just work together wherever they are, the more successful a company will be.
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http://www.openpandora.org/
If this device used a PowerPC SoC and included 3G networking, then we'd have something..
http://www.gp2xwiz.com/
I think the Amiga platform; no matter MorphOS or OS4 coupled with a PowerPC-based device that is of a practical form factor targeting several market sectors would be perfect for this kind of thing.
ED set-top-box? OS was done by Carl Sassenrath (now REBOL man), and it was supposed to be base for new version of AmigaOS back at that time. Viscorp times, right?
That is it. As a matter of fact, we had a couple of calls with Carl this week.
R&B :-)
bbrv, that is cool. ED's UI was done in ABL\E, or something like that. It is REBOL predecessor :-) I think that community never saw any screenshot. If you have some, you could post them. Is there any ED box working out there? Would be fine machine for the Amiga museum :-) btw - Carl is working on new REBOL GUI, it is going to be cool - if someone would be about to build some set-top-box - R3 is going to be a good option ...
If Genesi could modernize the ED:
8610 SoC or better, built-in cable modem, ATSC/QAM tuner, wireless (wifi) router, hard drive PVR, etc..
Built-in blu-ray drive?
What could a device with these features do?
Watch TV on your windows PC laptop, surf the web with your Nintendo DS, etc..
What else?
You just described the TiVo HD.
Matt,
Additionally, they've described the following scenario:
1. Apple or Microsoft gets file synchronization working between the iPhone/iPod Touch over broadband/WiFi.
2. American broadband capacity gets upped enough to handle this (think FIOS or better) crunch of bandwidth, and 4G cellular.
3. MobileMe ends up with a very large storage increase, from 20GB up to 120GB or so per user.
4. Apple "turns on" an iTunes Library/File Library/Playlist synchronization feature with MobileMe.
5. The new iPhone/iPod Touch devices, utilizing PA Semi/Apple silicon backed by OS X, on-chip h.264 decoding, and iWork for working on Office documents are able to sychronize libraries, playlists, and file directories with MobileMe instead of just via iTunes.
6. You're able to use your Apple devices anywhere to access your data as you see fit.
I emailed BB & RV about this, as they have some interesting industry partners who have mobile database solutions (Oracle), and because I think that MobileMe is a "trojan horse" synchronization technology which has more features then they have let on.
Interesting times, indeed.
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