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A Peek at AT&T's New Browser, Pogo
An anonymous reader writes "Ars Technica takes a look at Pogo, a browser from AT&T with new features like a 3-D history and bookmark view. The browser's currently in a private beta and Ars' comments aren't all necessarily glowing — particularly in the areas where performance is concerned. 'It requires Windows XP SP2 or later or Windows Vista, and its minimum hardware are surprisingly steep: a 1.6GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, and a video card with at least 256MB of VRAM. Seem like a bit much for a web browser? It is, and as we found out, these requirements posed some major challenges for us during our testing.'"
It's not just made for Vista. It's modeled after Vista too.
Are you saying ATT won't have Pogo Stick?
Since it doesn't run on Linux it will never achieve widespread mainstream acceptance on the desktop.
I want it to report simultaneously to the DHS and the NSA, when I change my vest and underpants.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
On the plus side, it reports all your browsing activity to AT&T.
AT&T
Your world delivered
(to us)
So, I'll need special glasses to see my history?
Walt Kelly was right: "we have met the enemy, and he is us".
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
..since I'm an AT&T customer, it feels like there are two unasked questions.
1.) What is AT&t going to do to make sure that this is the only browser that I use? Certainly something more than a silly EULA. How about automated litigation if I step a foot off Ma Bell's Farm?
2.) What can Bell do to offer me more choice with their browser? In other words how can they help me by blocking anything other than a heavily proxied port 80. Mail, it should sit on AT&T's webmail, where they own it and copyright whatever I say. FTP, thats for terrorists. We need more choices, you know, like cable TV.
I need more RAM.
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
Semantically equivalent to, "I drive a Pinto, but only in reverse."