I'm not convinced that the lack of an SD card is a huge downside. I certainly have more content than that (I could fill my 160GB iPod if I wanted to put everything on it), but for now the highest microSD is 16GB. That may go up to 32GB in 2009, but as all of us expand our music and video libraries, this is a "race" that solid state memory will never "win." With Orb, you can access everything on your PC (terabytes of content if you want) wirelessly. They have it for WM devices and maybe others now, I don't doubt you'll have something similar to this for WebOS. This is kind of like the cloud I guess except that you host all your content at home on your home PC. With Hulu, YouTube, Pandora, and Last.FM allowing you to stream lots of commercial and non-commercial audio and video, SprintTV there for live events, there's not a whole lot left. One nice addition would be if I could use my Netflix instant watch to stream movies. I know I'm not alone but I haven't heard of plans to do this.
I think all of this kind of leads to a divide in the way of thinking about audio and video. Some people still like the ownership model. They don't trust companies to give them unending access and want to "own" an album or song and keep it forever. I can understand wanting this for personal audio video or photos, but for commercial stuff, I think we are not TOO far off from a day when it's all out there and we pay some kind of all-you-can-eat rental fee that either gets attached to our internet connection plan, or directly to some association of artists. Maybe not in the next few years, but I'm guessing within the next 15 or 20 at any rate... Levi > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Art Alexion > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Treo] Brighthand previews the Pre > > On 01/13/2009 Craig Froehle wrote: > > So the list of things webOS doesn't have is looking kinda long at > this point: > > > > - external storage support > > 8 GB aside, this is really troublesome as the SD card > * Facilitates transfer of files when HotSyncing isn't available. > * is critical for truly useful backup software. > > The first is a show stopper if these things don't connect to non- > windows > boxes. > > The second may also be. Just Sunday, a VersaMail attachment (jpeg) > brought my Centro down completely (endless boot loop). A hard reset > and > an NVBackup restore and I was back in business in 10 minutes. Tha's > not > going to happen if hard resets are occasionally required with WebOS. > I'll suppose there will be some online backup service but I want a > local > option as well.
