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To: Adam Nash who wrote (70529)	1/5/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: billwot	Respond to of 186894

Adam-I concur that price is not the key to further PC market penetration. We commonly see "economically disadvantaged" families with PC's, just like they find a way to afford wide screen TV's and cell phones. If it is high on their personal priorities, they will get it. I interact with people every day that don,t own PCs because 1) They are intimidated by their complexity, and 2) They don't see how it will add value to their lives. JMHO billwot

To: Adam Nash who wrote (70529)	1/5/1999 9:02:00 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 186894

Dear Adam: I agree with you completely. The problem IS NOT price it is COMPLEXITY. I have read two THICK books on Windows 95 and Hardware and I believe I have reasonable intelligence having graduated first in my class at college and risen through the ranks to partnership in National CPA firm YET I feel like a DAMN IDIOT most of the time with my computer. I know that I am not utilizing even a 10th of the opportunities a decent computer offers. I spent New Years eve at a friends home and all he has is a $100 Web T/V box and a $50 keyboard and he seems to surf the net etc as well as most of us. When Computers are like T/V's you turn it on and go to work on it without having to know all kinds of mumbo jumbo THEN they will reach most of the other 50% of households. Until then it aint gonna happen EVEN if they give them away. JDN

To: Adam Nash who wrote (70529)	1/5/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

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