I, Cringely On A Momentous Week 221
rocketjam writes "Robert X. Cringley offers his take on three recent high-tech occurrences, saying they add up to an 'inflection point' that will change the landscape of the personal computer, video game, and electronic entertainment businesses forever. He briefly points out that Bill Gates' revelation that the next-gen XBox will offer music and movie playing capabilities as well as web-surfing will put MS into direct competition with its hardware OEM customers. He also touches on Yahoo's new music service and Apple's rumored movie download service. The meat of the article though is his take on the significance of Google's Web Accelerator. He says, 'If surfing can be doubled in speed for nothing, of course nearly everyone will go for it', the upshot of which is that AOL, MSN and Earthlink lose their relevancy. From this point more speculation on the implications of Google's success in this endeavor ensues."
Gasp! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ooOO (Score:5, Funny)
That makes the Xbox 360 a girly-box?
Me confused.
Damn you Robert X. Cringely!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Stop Robert! Stop for the sake of my pocketbook and my sanity!!!
Re:ooOO (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gasp! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:ooOO (Score:3, Funny)
Re:As Seen On TV is in trouble.... (Score:5, Funny)
He said he was too.
So we have that in common.
Re:More on XBOX 360. (Score:5, Funny)
So... (Score:1, Funny)
His powers of prognostication astound (Score:5, Funny)
Cringely is impressed that Google is offering a web accelerator service, something AOL has done for years; that the XBox will play music and video, something the playstations 1 and 2 did, respectively; that Yahoo is unveiling a service almost identical to the Napster service that appeared in the wake of the iTunes Music Store; and that Apple may, at some unspecified point in the future be releasing a product.
Well, that's all well and good. But I think the really important thing for the tech market is, will Gore or Bush win the election? Because Cringely doesn't weigh in on that at all.
Re:As Seen On TV is in trouble.... (Score:5, Funny)
--CTRL - BREAK --
Phew. Got out of that one...
Re:My thoughs (Score:2, Funny)
Re:More on XBOX 360. (Score:3, Funny)
> I work at Microsoft as do several of my friends...
Oh, I'm terribly sorry!
Simon
Re:More on XBOX 360. (Score:1, Funny)