On being too nostalgic: Tony Fadell mentions Amiga

[warpdesign]

I guess he meant some people want it to come back*commercially*. Aren't Hyperion & A-Eon trying to make it come back by trying to sell it ?

I guess nostalgia doesn't play well with a viable commercial product and that's what he meant. And I don't think it is that wrong...

"music in the cloud."

So to listen to a song 50 times means you have to download it 50 times...that's hardly efficient.

Heard about cache? It means it's accessible from anywhere you have a connection. Doesn't mean you have to download it each time. Hence the storage he was talking about.

"128GB storage, which is about the same amount of space the iPod Classic shipped with ...massive drive..."

Only 5Gb, actually...Plus 128Gb isn't massive, I didn't realize it was even possible to still buy drives that small these days.

Then I suggess you open your eyes: very few MP3 players have 128Gb today... Most mp3 players (those that are "better" than iPods got as little as 8/16Gb), and the only HD-based ones come with 128Gb only.

[warpdesign]

If you don't have to download it, it's being stored somewhere on the device, so not cloud-based.

What if it was store on the cloud, but you're device downloaded it somewhere, and kept a copy there?

That's what I meant... So if you go into the train where there's no connection, well, you still can listen to your music.

And guess what? If you connect to a friend's computer, you can still listen to your music by connecting to the cloud... even though he doesn't have a copy of your music.

[warpdesign]

Why is importat the opinion of this guy? he just made a mp3 player.

Maybe because it was great? And the first easy to use player? Maybe because it was a huge commercial success? He did what Commodore failed to do: sell to the mass.

[warpdesign]

Raspberry Pi is doing OK.

Amiga "spirit" is selling an over priced outdated and huge motherboard with a non finished closed source OS (why opening it?) for $2000+

It has really nothing to do with the Pi which is $35 an outdated (but not meant to be kick ass) tiny board with a non-finished (hardware accel was missing for X11,...) open source OS...

If the guys at the head of Pi were giving an interview, I guess you could listen to them as much as you could listen to Tony even though they may never have used an Amiga.