"if the computer can do it a baby can"
-James McClelland, a psychology professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.
I think that quote will rank up there along with Ken Olsen's "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home"
Well, you have to realize that we who actually read slashdot aren't the norm of society. I to don't watch TV, haven't had cable in over 5 years or a home phone in the last 7. It was less than 7 years ago that when I tried to get my electric turned on at my house and gave them my cell phone number they told me "I'm sorry sir, we need a home phone number" I had to go up the chain of command through 4 managers to get the approval to use a cell phone as my home phone. As for TV and the fact that we're minorities in not having cable a couple months ago I mentioned to someone that was about 20 or 21 that: "I don't have cable, I use rabbit ears instead". The next thing out of their mouth was "Rabbit Ears, I've never heard of them, are they any good? are they like satellite or something?". He actually thought "Rabbit Ears" was the name of some kind of service provider like Comcast or Qwest.
Anyway, I still don't understand why the iPhone got so much attention here in the US. I have a Treo 700 that can do everything the iPhone can do, plus more... and I've had it for almost 2 years... well maybe it's only a year and a half. But personally, I think the iPhone is nothing special. My Treo works great, and I'm still waiting for a phone that is truly better than it to come out. Now show me a cell phone that does what the Treo can (can the iPhone remote desktop into my home computer?) plus some new features, 5+megapixel camera with a flash?, micro projector so I can project the cell phone screen onto a blank wall (back of the seat on an airplane perhaps) so I can watch a movie I have stored on one of my SD cards.... seriously, show us something worth buying and people will buy it.
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"if the computer can do it a baby can" -James McClelland, a psychology professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. I think that quote will rank up there along with Ken Olsen's "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home"
Well, you have to realize that we who actually read slashdot aren't the norm of society. I to don't watch TV, haven't had cable in over 5 years or a home phone in the last 7. It was less than 7 years ago that when I tried to get my electric turned on at my house and gave them my cell phone number they told me "I'm sorry sir, we need a home phone number" I had to go up the chain of command through 4 managers to get the approval to use a cell phone as my home phone. As for TV and the fact that we're minorities in not having cable a couple months ago I mentioned to someone that was about 20 or 21 that: "I don't have cable, I use rabbit ears instead". The next thing out of their mouth was "Rabbit Ears, I've never heard of them, are they any good? are they like satellite or something?". He actually thought "Rabbit Ears" was the name of some kind of service provider like Comcast or Qwest.
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Anyway, I still don't understand why the iPhone got so much attention here in the US. I have a Treo 700 that can do everything the iPhone can do, plus more... and I've had it for almost 2 years... well maybe it's only a year and a half. But personally, I think the iPhone is nothing special. My Treo works great, and I'm still waiting for a phone that is truly better than it to come out. Now show me a cell phone that does what the Treo can (can the iPhone remote desktop into my home computer?) plus some new features, 5+megapixel camera with a flash?, micro projector so I can project the cell phone screen onto a blank wall (back of the seat on an airplane perhaps) so I can watch a movie I have stored on one of my SD cards.... seriously, show us something worth buying and people will buy it.
I'll go back to having the phone be the size of a potato/brick like they were in the 80s if they will cram a large battery, full functioning camera, cell phone, tablet PC functions, projector, the Wii motion sensor, and an Atari 2600 into it. I don't think I'd be willing to go back to the era of "car phones"
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