Saturday, May 14, 2005
Change in Tech Industy?
Interesting commentary
Robert X. Cringely, who has been around the tech industry for as long as I can remember, has a commentary on last week, saying it "This Week Changed the World of High Tech Forever, Though Most of Us Still Don't Know It."
He breaks it down to three major points.
1) Microsoft's announcement of the new XBox. He is saying that it is built to compete with Intel computers, not just Sony and Nintendo.
2)Is Google Web Accelerator. The idea here is that Google provides a service where they try to predict where you are going next. Then download a compressed version of that web page while you are reading the current one. This could compete with Microsoft's own operating system. The big problem being that they could provide additional computing power on their server so our current computers would last longer. That would cost Microsoft and hardware companies a lot of cash. Also, it could eliminate the need for ISPs such as AOL that provide their own content.
3)Apple's new movie/music business.
He quotes an Slashdot poster that is supposedly an Apple employee. (S)he said that
Apple would be doing a video equivalent of its AirPort Express WiFi repeater that has audio output to link iTunes to your stereo system. He points out that the use of this repeater means that the computer itself doesn't have to be so fast. Thus the Mac mini becomes the center point of a multi-media system.
Interesting isn't it. He gives a lot more detail, including comments on the new Yahoo music service. Read it at: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050512.html
Robert X. Cringely, who has been around the tech industry for as long as I can remember, has a commentary on last week, saying it "This Week Changed the World of High Tech Forever, Though Most of Us Still Don't Know It."
He breaks it down to three major points.
1) Microsoft's announcement of the new XBox. He is saying that it is built to compete with Intel computers, not just Sony and Nintendo.
2)Is Google Web Accelerator. The idea here is that Google provides a service where they try to predict where you are going next. Then download a compressed version of that web page while you are reading the current one. This could compete with Microsoft's own operating system. The big problem being that they could provide additional computing power on their server so our current computers would last longer. That would cost Microsoft and hardware companies a lot of cash. Also, it could eliminate the need for ISPs such as AOL that provide their own content.
3)Apple's new movie/music business.
He quotes an Slashdot poster that is supposedly an Apple employee. (S)he said that
Apple would be doing a video equivalent of its AirPort Express WiFi repeater that has audio output to link iTunes to your stereo system. He points out that the use of this repeater means that the computer itself doesn't have to be so fast. Thus the Mac mini becomes the center point of a multi-media system.
Interesting isn't it. He gives a lot more detail, including comments on the new Yahoo music service. Read it at: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050512.html
# posted by Lynn Wegley @ 6:47 AM 
