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To: ahhaha who wrote (20975)	4/17/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

I just know that everyone keeps on buying PCs and Windows regardless of the hype that the cheap alternative will grab the market. I agree, part of that is that you can walk in to Staples and buy a full fledged e-machine for $300....why would you buy a $99 appliance that has huge limitations? In terms of user experience I'd rather have my applications local and store my data on the web. This resolves many issues, not the least of which is "update Hell" where you are trying to synch up your desktop with your laptop with your home machine with your Palm Pilot, etc. And you apps run faster locally. Although, it makes a lot of sense to have small apps running over the web, things like Datek streamer, where they are constantly tweaking the efficiency. Larger apps would go to the subscription service realm. We're almost there now. I can't remember the last update where I had to ask for a CD to do it. With broadband it is possible to have the application constantly updated, like you do with your Real Player, or AOL (but not like AOL- ask me first). The complexity of function moves away from the OS and back out to where specificity is needed by all the variety of users, in the application. This is what was so great about a browser. Instead of loading this big bulky program with numerous features of which you maybe use 10% of, you load a small nimble program and then customize the plugins to fit your use. We've moved a little bit away from that model, but that was the original intent. I have a TiVo and the TiVo contains a modem and every afternoon while I'm at work it calls the mother ship and updates the programing. I got an email the other day that said that they were upgrading the whole system and not to worry it would be automatic and there would be a message when it was done. It would reschedule if we happened to be watching the TV at the time of the scheduled update. This is a machine that knows exactly what it is and it performs that function flawlessly. Perhaps the problem that we have with the new Excite is that it doesn't know whether it wants to be a portal or an ASP, a newspaper, magazine or a TV or all of these things at once. When really what we want is the ability to decide through the interface what we want it to be. We want to customize it completely to our use, not just drag this column over here and tell it what horoscope to display.