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Re: Worth more dead then alive

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"Trevor" <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> wrote in message 
news:jnpf9r$opc$3@dont-email.me...
> Have you seen the Raspberry Pi?
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/

Sheesh! There goes another $35 of my hard earned money in the near future 
and a journey back into Linux.

I heard someone estimate the new product cycle in the Far East is 4 years. 
It will overflow to stuff done in the Western World. If it's true then the 
'good old days' like we had where:

1) Parent buys computer
2) Computer is manufactured and supported for decades
3) Child grows up in household and continues tradition for 2nd generation

30+ years of stuff like Atari and Spectrum computers.

There's real competition and innovation going on. I don't think it was that 
long ago I was talking about my PMP being programmable and running at ~140 
MHz. Just bought my 4th Windows mobile phone off fleabay for less then $20. 
I'm giving them out to relatives like stocking stuffers at xmas. I got fed 
up with br0k3ass3d friends and relatives complaining about [lack of digital 
camera, can't post to craigslist, no email, ...] Something like 400 MHz ARM 
processor with built in Wifi let's them sit at McDonalds and surf the 
internet.

Android looks strong too. Active community of people hacking and supporting 
the OS on everything from phones to tablets. $70 tablet and $10 USB keyboard 
take care of most of the stuff people need. Tablets even come with built in 
camera albeit a crappy one.

Right now it looks like some flavor of Android and ARM processor are going 
to win. Of course 30 years ago Digital Research, Atari, and Word Perfect 
looked unstoppable.

Rick 

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Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-04-29 09:55 -0700
  Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-05-01 13:57 -0600
    Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-01 17:00 -0700
      Re: Worth more dead then alive bill@newbreedsoftware.com (Bill Kendrick) - 2012-05-02 05:07 +0000
        Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-05-02 08:33 -0700
      Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-04 15:58 -0600
        Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-04 16:23 -0700
          Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-06-05 08:39 -0600
            Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-06-05 14:47 -0700
              Re: Worth more dead then alive Clu <drclu@swbell.net> - 2012-07-07 01:15 +0400
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-06 17:09 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-08 14:47 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-09 10:12 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-10 21:43 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-11 09:21 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-11 09:21 -0700
                Re: Worth more dead then alive Trevor <trevorREMOVE@holyoak.com> - 2012-07-11 13:43 -0600
                Re: Worth more dead then alive "Rick" <ricortes at yahoo dot com> - 2012-07-12 19:16 -0700

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