Re: inferno (was Re: [9fans] fortune-worthy)

[a@9srv.net]

// ...for what their customers often had in mind to do with it, it was usable.

huh. i was in the BU; we had customers? ;-)

seriously, i think you're right, but solely because of your follow on statement:
they weren't doing anything very interesting. more and more screen phones, with
no particularly interesting software. and the software it did have wasn't really
very good, for the most part; we had a (um, two!) crappy browser, a crappy mail
program, a decent message center...

it's fairly disapointing that the Jetsons-inspired "Concept Phones" tended to
make for better demos than the Shannon phones (aside from the fact that the
Shannon hardware was much more reasonable), and the demo apps shipped with the
prefab module made a better demo than any of them, even towards the end of the
BU (especially with the mpeg stuff).

mind you, PathStar was amazing, but even though it chronologically overlapped
with the BU, it had basically nothing to do with it.
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