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To: Tom D who wrote (132759)	10/10/2001 12:51:53 PM
From: Crystal ball	Respond to of 164684

High Bandwidth vs Browser low bandwidth, its the like of monopolists like Bill Gates with their dream of controlling high bandwidth and us hordes of consumers that Marc Andreesan and the Netscape/AOL people have allowed us all to dial up the internet without paying fortune 500 bandwidth fees. PALM OS is where the multitudes are and will be. Don't sell PALM OS short, there are over 10,000 programmers and over 30,000 applications written for PALM OS devices like HANDspring and PALM and SONY VIAO and Kyocera SMARTPHONES etc. There are two demand and supply curves, each with separate, although so far parallel Moore's Law doublings every 18 months (or less, more ike 6 months now). As the corporate world demands more bandwidth, it will be supplied, but at higher costs than consumers will be able to afford. Consumers also demand better and faster machines, more and more bandwidth and throughput. They get it also, as the supply meets the lower prices they can afford. This lower bandwidth is supply side, whereas corporate high bandwidth is demand i.e. command economics. The 2.5GHz market will not come in 2 years for all consumers, take a look at the rural telecom, you can not even use cellphones yet out in the countryside everywhere. The cost of upgrading the infrastructure to beyond 3G everywhere will take longer in the bigger territory of the United States and Canada than it did in the highly populated that is densely populated European penisular and South Korean penisula and Japan. Worldwide, the problem is even more compounded for infrastructure, cabled, wired, telecom infrastructure. The rest of the world is going wireless. And unless we all go GSM (the European smaller honeycomb cell infrastructure) or PALM OS or peer to peer in a blue tooth PALM OS relayed wireless fashion, the 3G telecom you speak of will still be limited to metro areas, Japan, Europe and corporate wireless LAN networks that can afford the higher price for higher bandwidth. Until then the PALM OS will be where it is at, and HANDspring already has gone to internet on its new Visors units. PALM has delayed their I705. Obviosuly the demand for nokia 640xpixels is not here yet. But when it is, the PALM OS enabled PALM and HANDspring devices will have it. The display is not limited by the PALM OS operatig system, nor the chip, but the external bandwidth available and the display screen plugged into or made a part of these machines now. Webpages, with graphics, take up a lot of info, a lot of data, a lot of bandwidth. Until we have the infrastructure, reading something is better than reading nothing. But I agree, we all want more, more is better. At the right time, soon, they all will go to high resolution screens, because they will all have the new graphics cards built in them. For this we all must take a moment, reflect, and thank AAPL and the likes of Trident and yes, even Zenith, that made higher resolution graphic technology, and its miniturization and direct connect from the CPU on the BUS possible. Someday high res screens will be as cheap and even disposabe as specially treated paper. Scrolls anyone? I am, Truly your$, -Crystal Ball