But Joe, et. al.,
The Clie is so much bigger. I mean for what I am thinking. But then, my
thinking might be too small!! What appeals about the ipod is its diminuitive
size compared to other things. It slips right into a pocket and disappears.
The use threshhold is very low because the functionality is limited...that
is a good thing, I am thinking, if the use is primarily for sharing training
videos and information. The Clie can do a lot, maybe too much. I don't know.
What do others think?
Steve Snow
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Beckmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "The Digital Divide Network discussion group"
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech
While I certainly sympathize with ipods as micro-supercomputers, much
older
- and thereby much cheaper - Sony Clie's do all the same thing, including
video, sound, mp3, text, still, flash, and even internet. What they lack
is
phone, but that is what distinguishes the smartphones. In the meantime, I
wonder that people haven't collected old Clie's from Sony and EBay and
created whole computer classrooms able to do most of what a full scale lab
can do, with much more flexibility, at much less than Negroponte's
projected
computer, with much more software capacity.
Joe Beckmann
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