Anything-on-the-go and the iPod economy
I was amazed to know that my colleagues at SAP could bring the whole
contents of a demo scenario on a Linux server blade to a big drive,
then dump it on any standard PC and start immediately. Recently,
RingCube has commercialized its software to allow mirroring software
into a small storage device and start it again in a Windows-based
machine. It seems that mobile computing may not only bring computing
devices around, but also as simple as a small storage device... and one
of the popular device that people bring along anyway is iPod.
Talking about iPod, on my trip to Vienna, I stayed in le Meridien
and guess what, I saw iPod rental on the wall. Strolling last week in
Saturn, a electronics chain similar to Circuit City or CompUSA in
Germany, I encountered dictionaries for iPod, which are similar to Merriam-Webster's here.
What I can see from these two different sets of events is the
iPod-economy no longer stops at music- or video-on-the-go. It has been
and will be more as new technologies enable anything go mobile, from
telephone, PC, dictionary to map, calendar, and God knows what next...
Welcome to the new world, where anything is on-the-go, and how many
devices do you still have? I see some day, human will carry only a
single tiny, easy-to-use, lightweight device with smart (but no need to
be powerful) computing capability and a lot of storage. Maybe, I will
go and buy Apple's share now.
Uploaded in Heidelberg.
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