Citation de Rafi Halajian (Fluxus):
"Pendant la grande vague des intriductions en Bourse euphoriques de 1999-2000, la capacité d'attention d'un analyste ou d'un investisseur institutionel était le plus souvent de quarante-cinq minutes. PowerPoint était donc l'outil par excellence pour lyophiliser votre projet et le servir à ceux qui tenaient les cordons de l'avenir de votre boite".
La citation du jour
En janvier 1999, le business model du commerce électronique semble être de vendre à perte en compensant par la pub, voire d'offrir le PC qui permettra de venir consulter la publicité! The Economist s'interroge alors:
"Est-ce trop improbable d'imaginer Dollar.com, une entreprise qui vendrait des billets de 1 dollar pour 90 cents et gagnerait de l'argent grâce à la publicité?"
PalmOS voué à l'échec?
Russel Beattie pense que PalmOS est voué à l'échec!
Personnellement je serais beaucoup moins catégorique! Ma réponse:
A PDA is more a sort of an electronic notebook than a pocket computer. (Btw that's where MS has it all wrong starting with the name "PocketPC" !)
Symbian may be a challenger but I think it's all going to depend on the usability of the interface. Think mainstream. The Zire is a good thing: most people don't need more. Okay, maybe an integrated MP3 player... and that's why PalmSource have BeOS now, ARM architecture and PalmOS 5.
It's gonna be the MacOS vs Windows again. User interface will be the key. And so far, there's no real pressure to be compatible with company standards. Besides PalmOS pretty elegantly syncs with Window Apps.
Of course Palm has to adapt quickly to be more suited for smartphones, but that's another problem. (Though an important one because smartphones are the ones which are going to finance for PDAs...)
Symbian may have it right, but I don't know enough about the UI to tell more.
dixit un ancien de Boo.com
sur la 4ème de couv de "Les Flingueurs du Net" (calmann-Lévy):
"On a niqué l'économie mondiale, mais on s'est bien amusé"
Nouveaux PDA sous PalmOS?
Lu sur PDABuzz aujourd'hui:
PalmSource CEO David Nagel, speaking yesterday in London, said more companies will soon become Palm OS licensees, though he declined to specify which ones. (Apple and Legend--a major PC vendor in China--are rumored to be on the short list.) He did, however, hint that some new members of the Palm OS club are also working with the Pocket PC and/or Symbian platforms. (Hmmm...Toshiba? Nokia? Let the speculation begin!)
