A TV That Takes Orders

This is what people want. Average, normal people. We are not average, normal people, any more than race car drivers are average, normal commuters.

Average normal people don't love computers. They don't even particularly like them. To them, a computer is an expensive, annoying, break-prone, overcomplicated evil, a necessary evil, but still an evil.

They don't want dual-core, fluid-cooled, lots-of-bits big boxes.

Instead, they just want something small, simple, quiet and reliable which takes little to no effort to learn and use. They want a TV that will take orders. That's all. What's out there now isn't it, not by a long shot.

It won't happen tomorrow, or next year, but one of these days in the not-too-distant future, somebody's going to give them what they want. Via's building the hardware. Down the road, it's not inconceivable AMD might stop ramming itself headfirst against the Intel wall following Intel's rules and try walking around it instead.

For software, if the Linux folks can't bring themselves to stop being propeller-heads, somebody else eventually will.

And when they do, the computing world as we know it won't be there any more. Yes, there will be niches of geekdom afterwards where the old rules still apply, but that's all there will be.

Ed