[44026] in Cypherpunks
Re: The future will be easy to use (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Mon Nov 27 23:16:29 1995
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:09:27 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Responding to msg by ravage@einstein.ssz.com (Jim Choate) on
Mon, 27 Nov 8:54 PM
>Don't hold your breath. The current market surveys say
>that there is no market for them. Check out this weeks
>PC Week or Mac Week, as they both have several
>articles discussing this. Bottem line is that the under
>$1000 computer seems to have no future either in
>industry or the home.
Peter Lewis reports in today's NYT on "doubts about the fantasy
of a $500 'Network PC' " but quotes Eric Schmidt of Sun saying,
"They will exist and they will be very successful, and not just
from Sun and Oracle. The price points are going to be pretty
low, and they'll look more like consumer electronics."
Anybody want this mixed review send us a BOX_top.
