Sun President Says PCs Are Relics

christchurch map writes "Jonathan Schwartz, president of server and software maker Sun Microsystems, said that the personal computer is increasingly becoming a relic. Instead, what has become important are Web services on the Internet and the majority of the world will first experience the Internet through their mobile phones." From the article: "Schwartz points to the increasing wealth and power of companies, like eBay, Google, Yahoo and Amazon.com, that profit from free services available over the network. Among his audience, many more people said they'd rather have access to Internet services than their desktop computing applications. And Microsoft--the company with the biggest financial stake in the PC software business--has struggled to cope with the arrival of Web services."

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Re:a whole 1.544?

[sbaker]

    "1. What is Verizon FiOS Internet Service?
    Verizon FiOS Internet Service is a broadband service designed
    to provide Internet access with maximum connection speeds of up
    to 30 Mbps downstream and 5 Mbps upstream" ...that's not really 3.5Gbps is it? (and of course it uses that good old standby of snake oil salesmen everywhere "...up to..." - meaning that you might actually get a tenth of that some of the time).

If your game ran on a computer on the other end of that link, the
best full colour 76Hz resolution would be about 128x128 pixels without compression - or maybe 300x200 with compression.

Not terribly impressive for playing Doom3 eh? You could probably play Tetris over that quality of link...if you could stand the latency.

Re:I don't think so.

[ppanon]

Nope, he meant synchronous.