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To: gdichaz who wrote (18033)	11/9/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

Maybe what we really need is an announcement of a joint venture between Qualcomm and K-Tel. Jon.

To: gdichaz who wrote (18033)	11/9/1998 4:49:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

I'm surprised at the lack of discussion about the purpose of the JV with Microsoft. This is not just about enhanced Palm Pilots. Perhaps the material is often too dry, so here is my interpretation of the grail that the JV is chasing: Mon 8:00am 2010 - Arrive at work, but have to go directly to a meeting in another building. Pick up an available data pad and check e-mail. Only item of consequence is that I have to put together a presentation with Maurice for a 3:00 meeting with customer. Hope he's not tippling on the other side of the globe. 8:30 - Meeting starts. Charts show up on screen, but I missed yesterday's meeting so I pull up presentation on data pad. Use hypertext in presentation to find some background I missed. 9:00 - Questions start, and I have one. I bring up appropriate charts for the whole room and point to the problems. 9:30 - No time to go back to the office. Need to meet customer with hardcopy proposal. Fold data and charts from meeting into proposal and locate nearest available printer. Dump to printer, then go pick it up. 10:00 Meet with customer. 11:00 Go to the new technology division to find the latest schedules and discuss customer concerns. Can't see schedule from here, but once over there it is obvious that we are not meeting desired order of delivery. Enter request for change and meet with product manager. Software says schedule cannot be changed in the desired way without some unacceptable consequences to 2 other customers. Have to finish changes here before I can go back to the office since I am not allowed access from back in my office, and my pad won't remember once I leave. Requested changes submitted and in authorization cycle as controlled by the manager. 12:00 Lunch at office 1:00 Start work on presentation. Call Maurice. This is likely to take a while - its a good thing that the call is automatically paid for by the company even though it is my own phone (the phone system knows from where I am calling). Simultaneously work on same paper with Maurice (like a chalk board but from afar, and with handwriting recognition, ...). The only hiccup is that in a fit of pique in defence of British spelling he drops his pad onto the desk and it breaks. He has to walk out and get a new one, but of course no data is lost. 1:30 Interupted by a request for authorization to change the schedule. It isn't exactly what I had hoped for, but close enough. Provide electronic authorization. 2:55 Almost forgot meeting except for insistent pinging on pad. ... The point here is that in order to make the hardware really useful and ubiquituous there needs to be a lot of new software written. Some of this is partly written, such as primitive document sharing or electronic authorization routing, but other software such as location sensitive authorization, self deleting files (when leaving a location), or efficient distributed databases, ... are in their infancy. Comments? (Other than on my literary style) Clark