> Tony Havelka wrote:
> > At $3,500, we can't keep M2's in stock
>
> Do you have a link to this on your site?
> I couldn't find it.
No link if we can't keep it in stock!
> > What about user resistance to wearing something on their head?
>
> I used to think this was an issue. I'm not
> sure any longer. With corporations going to
> floor plans without assigned desks, centered
> around open, common areas, IMO only a
> wearable or a tablet makes sense in such an
> environment. Add in handling a cellphone,
> any papers, manuals, etc., and a wearable
> starts edging out the tablet.
> http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/7281904.htm
Unless something radical happens with the design and performance of "the
wearable" I think it will be pushed out of existence. Hear me out on
this:
5 years ago, I thought the future of wearable looked like this:
(I hope the ASCII graph works)
T 5| \ /
I | \ /
M | \ /
E | PDA \ / Laptop
| Wearable
0 ---------------------------
MARKET
Wearable would eat away at the PDA market because of their higher
performance and because they used OS's other than PALM or CE making
deployment and maintenance of applications cheaper - your "wearable
desktop". They would also chip away at the laptop market share because
they would have the same performance but are more ergonomic - lighter
weight, don't need to sit to use them.
Today, I think the future looks like this:
T 5|\ \ /
I | | \ /
M | | PDA \ / Laptop
E | | \ /
|Wearable Tablet
0 ---------------------------
MARKET
The classic wearable is on track to be pushed out of existence as it has
not changed in 5 years. Competition is good - there is no competition
in this market right now. Competition drives innovation in technology,
form, fit, function and price. Tablets, I believe, have pushed wearable
off the corporate and government radar screen because they are new and
have the backing of the very large computer manufacturers. Oh, and you
don't have to wear it. Unfortunately, the average person wearing a
Wearable PC for the first time feels more like this
(http://aia.lackland.af.mil/aia/homepages/techdemo/images/wearable_compu
ter.jpg) or this (http://www.freshangles.com/images/1896.jpg) than this
(http://images.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/review/_photos/poma-wearable
-use.jpg). This has got to change.
PDAs are getting more powerful and cross platform compilers are getting
better making code maintenance cheaper. Laptops are getting more
powerful and cheaper. All putting pressure on the overall "value" of
using a wearable.
> > What about alternative display devices?
>
> Shut yo' mouth! ;-)
Word.
-Tony
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