On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:48:10AM -0500, John J. Corelli wrote:
> > --Alan
> > > this reminds me of my contracting days. can you imagine a more
> > > ridiculous project than playing a video on a Palm?
> I never said you could not p*** up a stick. Just that it was a bad idea.
> For the same reason, most of the springboard modules currently on
> the market will fail. You see no one really wants a camera stuck on
> the end of a palmtop. They want a camera that takes decent pictures.
Yes and no. If you think that a visor + camera will beat the other
digital cameras, then no. If you want a handheld that can take
snapshots and maybe do something live to process the image, or monitor
and do complex triggering (e.g. motion detection?) or other things, it
is different. The question is NOT if it isn't competetive with other
devices, it is whether it is profitable in itself.
(Motion) Video is for the most part an "eye-candy" application, but
there are uses for it. It is one of those showy but generally useless
things the PocketPC platform supports (make things like notes and
datebook difficult, but add enough eye-candy and they show up on
radar).
> And don't forget about the price of a $pringboard module. ($300 for
> a phone plug in and on top of the cost of the Visor itself...?)
And the price of a digital film reader for your computer? Software to
do something with it? If you already have the Visor? Ultimately it
is the system price for the function. But you should work backward
from the function.
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