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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MARU CAT who wrote (36179)	5/4/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: kathyh	Respond to of 90042

nice article, coms palm pilot... news.com an excerpt... An era of what Norman terms "always on, real-time" communication afforded by cable and DSL service will also become a larger factor in another decade or so, offering the opportunity to create devices for specific uses in different areas of the home, such as televisions with Web browsers integrated into the set. To date, however, computer companies have failed to tap into the mass market, he asserted, in part due to the complexity of the systems they have designed. "There is a massive change underway fueled by a revolt against complexity and unreliability of the PC," Norman said. Microsoft was noted as a company that listens too much to customers and designs in more features than they can ever use, driving up overall system complexity. Conversely, the PalmPilot devices from 3Com's Palm Computing were hailed as examples of good designs that employ technology appropriate for a limited set of tasks.