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Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns the fact they are running windows and are made by sony just shows that the hardware is there for apple to utilise, but that they need to exercise their magic on it. imagine the vaio's size, and level of technology, but apple taking it one step further to replce the 12" pb. which at the moment, is shite. the vaio is just a very good example of innovation hampered by wintel domination |
I think I disagree. Innovation and commercial viability are almost never a guaranteed sure thing. Sony, Apple and Microsoft are all in biz to make money.
Sony is providing a hardware platform.
If Microsoft _OR_ Apple were in a position and of a mind to innovate, either one step up. Obviously, neither is. You can *not* discount Apple's cool products, shiny interface and user-friendly nature. You can *not* discount Microsoft's *apparent* dominance in the market place.
If Apple wanted to innovate and thought the mini Viao was viable, they would spend some time compiling and tweaking their OS core to run on Intel. If Sony thought there was a market, they would build a PPC version of the system. If Microsoft thought there was a market, they would licensce Darwin (or some ther open source OS) and get with Apple to make it happen.
Can we all just step back from the Apple/Wintel wars for just a sec and remember something... it was the consumers who made Windows what it is today. It's not like Gates woke up one morning and said, "Today is the day I take over the world" and *poof* there it was. Remember, Windows went thru' many, many revisions and releases before it found the market viability that Apple, NeXT, Unix and many others never really did.
And looking around at the the computer landscape you can see it's been an excercise in evolution for far, far longer than in revolution (or innovation).
I think we've reached "maintenance mode" in the current computing model. The next big innovation will be in *true* universal voice recognition and/or 3d interfacing and perhaps visual gesture recognition (a la Minority Report). Separation of the visual interface (GUI) and gearing processing more towards universal interfacing (GUI, Voice, Gestures, ...) is the next logical step.
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