Adam,>>>Forget the other 50%, a huge number of the people who have PCs barely use them. In their current incarnation, PCs are just too much effort to be useful. <<<
I know Mr. Otellini didn't attend Stanford, but I think he is talking about segmentation of the PC market. The PC market is not monolithic.
The ISP's or Telephone companies could bundle a $200-300 application specific PC with there service and where all the customer could do is point with some device and click their way around the internet, get email, and perhaps send a one page email to some Internet destination. No OS, no printer, no scanner, no audio (?), no hard drive, no video, no animation, no 3D, no games, no whatever.
If you want to produce a printed document with reverse image, shading, bar graphs, various fonts, color, etc, - you need to get a different computer.
If you want to work with an Oracle database - you will have to spend a few more dollars for a computer that can handle more complex tasks.
If you want to produce an animated cartoon - you may need an even more powerful and therefore even more expensive computer.
One size does not fit all.
I think that is what he is saying. Hell, what do I know, I didn't go to Stanford either.
Regards,
Mary
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