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On the other hand.. the Pandora is not for everyone or everything; it is expensive, it is great for coding, hacking emulation, etc; but if you want to play the latest Lara Croft, its not for you. Folks have been trained that a device is for consumption, as a little window to content.. they're nolonger used to reaching for the stars, for trying to do Real Work in a Small Package. With original PDAs and mobiles, we tried to pack desktop functionality, with a nice UI, into a small device; but now, devices are about little tiny simple jobs, selling apps for a buck, and really good multimedia. The apps, they're cheap, the devs.. we can't shoot for the stars and spend years making a giant application suite for a buck. But heres the Pandora, a full general purpose machine, thats also good at gaming and so forth.. thats a hard concept for people to get.


They may bash, the misguided folks, and it may not be for them; but they do need to be instructed, so as not to pass a bad word :)
 
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On the other hand.. the Pandora is not for everyone or everything; it is expensive, it is great for coding, hacking emulation, etc; but if you want to play the latest Lara Croft, its not for you. Folks have been trained that a device is for consumption, as a little window to content.. they're nolonger used to reaching for the stars, for trying to do Real Work in a Small Package. With original PDAs and mobiles, we tried to pack desktop functionality, with a nice UI, into a small device; but now, devices are about little tiny simple jobs, selling apps for a buck, and really good multimedia. The apps, they're cheap, the devs.. we can't shoot for the stars and spend years making a giant application suite for a buck. But heres the Pandora, a full general purpose machine, thats also good at gaming and so forth.. thats a hard concept for people to get.


They may bash, the misguided folks, and it may not be for them; but they do need to be instructed, so as not to pass a bad word :)

Quoted For Great Truth. Both in the analysis of the infantilization of devices, and for the proper approach to "the misguided" :D


The Pandora really is the continuation of the HP200lx and such, not of smartphones and palm pilots.
 
[...] the Pandora is not for everyone or everything; it is expensive, it is great for coding, hacking emulation, etc; but if you want to play the latest Lara Croft, its not for you. Folks have been trained that a device is for consumption, as a little window to content.. they're nolonger used to reaching for the stars, for trying to do Real Work in a Small Package. With original PDAs and mobiles, we tried to pack desktop functionality, with a nice UI, into a small device; but now, devices are about little tiny simple jobs, selling apps for a buck, and really good multimedia. The apps, they're cheap, the devs.. we can't shoot for the stars and spend years making a giant application suite for a buck. But heres the Pandora, a full general purpose machine, thats also good at gaming and so forth.. thats a hard concept for people to get.
If Ed does ever write a book about the Pandora, then this is probably a good quote to put into it.


Let me mark it so it can be retrieved: #pandorabook
 
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