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  • From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
  • To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Linux, AOL/TimeWarner, and the future of computing
  • Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 01:41:44 -0500


At 01:30 AM 3/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:
What really makes/breaks the whole network appliance idea is a cheap
relatively high resolution screen (600x800 would be fine) so that you
can actually read text on the screen, which is what so much of the
web/email experience is about.

There's still one other point, though -- MS doesn't bring the wire in
to people's houses.

That is the point. Time-Warner owns the wire and the set-top. AOL owns the email. MS owns the desktop. They're both trying to establish a dominant position in the living room. Xbox is a play for the set-top/information appliance. It doesn't matter that the resolution is poor for now. They want to be there when that problem is fixed. As does AOL/TW. If MS wins, they can charge AOL/TW for space on the set-top. If AOL wins, then MS is relegated to the desktop. Of course, MS will be there doing a lot of the network services stuff upstream.

TaB





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