Actually, a SunRay makes all kinds of sense for that application and is significantly different from FreePeeCee.
FreePeeCee was like somebody dropping a steamshovel-full of dead fish on your lawn. Just for signing up for a million years of infuriatingly slow dialup with a zero-value-add ISP, you got a bottom-of-the-barrel taiwanese PC with nobody to tell you how to work it and one of those unmanned "please press one" voice trees to ignore you when it broke. When the 1000% inevitable MSFT BSOD came up on your "simple commodity", you were hosed big time like all other PC owners, except FreePeeCee customers were probably more naive and less literate than others who could afford to pay for things--including help--explicitly.
Quite a bargain!
A SunRay isn't slow, won't BSOD, can do whatever it needs to do, takes little space and makes zero noise, and when problems do arise (with much less frequency than a PeeCee), they're much easier to deal with for both user and supplier. Like replacing a cable box. A guy comes out and handles two wires for 5 minutes.
It's actually a very fine product idea. However, a SunRay is not a Big Mac, and people have been condidtioned to believe Big Mac's are food. Therefore regardless of the merits, the ISP's SunRay has almost a guaranteed zero chance of ever seeing the light of day, let alone broad market success.
--QS |
