Dan wrote:
To qoute someone: "I have a plan."
Make A500 the "My first computer" use a pc104-board(pc104+ or pci104 or whatever the pci compatible version is called) and massproduce it.
Market it in different sectors.
1. at preeschool kids.
2.at school kids
3. as a industrial solution
4. as a rugged mp3/pocketvideoplayer
5. as a rugged pda/data-entry-in-the-field device
6.as a small and simple "just plug it in"-server for print/storage-server
7. with pci-expansion as a STB
8.with pci-expansion as a hometheater-pc
Thr 1.) is the most important because if we could get the kids used to our userinterface then they would prefer that in the future. Remmember how we all started with games and then DPaint and Say on the A500. Later we started to really use the WB for example to paint, copy a floppy and listen to a MOD-file at the same time. :-)
Also the 0 to 3-year old test is superior to the testing in the industrial testing, they neither chew on the computers or puke on them:lol: nor do they use them as a hammer.
Everybody knows that "digital" and "computer" means fragile and prone to breaking, rigth?
Time to prove them wrong!
And just think about the adverts.
And making a product that doesn´t fall apart just because you look at it to hard would make a company standout from the rest in the computer industry.
Oh and it should be BLACK silver/metallic is equal to crap these days!
Lysande, Sickan, lysande! :-D
We need to move away from the thought of the computer as a big, begie box, that can only be used by nerds.
If a three year-old can use it, then it's usable by the majority of people. This is where AmigaDE/Java/Insert-your-favourite-VM-here come in pretty handy: You would like one common UI for everything, though all the components are specialised for their specific applications. Bluetooth would be excellent for connecting it all. In the end, you could use your PDA to control the stereo, the DVD, and the TV. A Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, or joystick could be used when needed. In the middle of everything, we'd have a CDTV-like device to control it all.
It wouldn't have to be connected to a monitor or so, you'd just control it via VNC.
