Gamer Syndrome Blog Post

[skeezix]

On the other hand.. the Pandora is not for everyone or everything; it is expensive, it is great for coding, hacking emulation, etc; but if you want to play the latest Lara Croft, its not for you. Folks have been trained that a device is for consumption, as a little window to content.. they're nolonger used to reaching for the stars, for trying to do Real Work in a Small Package. With original PDAs and mobiles, we tried to pack desktop functionality, with a nice UI, into a small device; but now, devices are about little tiny simple jobs, selling apps for a buck, and really good multimedia. The apps, they're cheap, the devs.. we can't shoot for the stars and spend years making a giant application suite for a buck. But heres the Pandora, a full general purpose machine, thats also good at gaming and so forth.. thats a hard concept for people to get.


They may bash, the misguided folks, and it may not be for them; but they do need to be instructed, so as not to pass a bad word

 

[moxie]

On the other hand.. the Pandora is not for everyone or everything; it is expensive, it is great for coding, hacking emulation, etc; but if you want to play the latest Lara Croft, its not for you. Folks have been trained that a device is for consumption, as a little window to content.. they're nolonger used to reaching for the stars, for trying to do Real Work in a Small Package. With original PDAs and mobiles, we tried to pack desktop functionality, with a nice UI, into a small device; but now, devices are about little tiny simple jobs, selling apps for a buck, and really good multimedia. The apps, they're cheap, the devs.. we can't shoot for the stars and spend years making a giant application suite for a buck. But heres the Pandora, a full general purpose machine, thats also good at gaming and so forth.. thats a hard concept for people to get.


They may bash, the misguided folks, and it may not be for them; but they do need to be instructed, so as not to pass a bad word

Quoted For Great Truth. Both in the analysis of the infantilization of devices, and for the proper approach to "the misguided"


The Pandora really is the continuation of the HP200lx and such, not of smartphones and palm pilots.

 

[Christoph.Krn]

[...] the Pandora is not for everyone or everything; it is expensive, it is great for coding, hacking emulation, etc; but if you want to play the latest Lara Croft, its not for you. Folks have been trained that a device is for consumption, as a little window to content.. they're nolonger used to reaching for the stars, for trying to do Real Work in a Small Package. With original PDAs and mobiles, we tried to pack desktop functionality, with a nice UI, into a small device; but now, devices are about little tiny simple jobs, selling apps for a buck, and really good multimedia. The apps, they're cheap, the devs.. we can't shoot for the stars and spend years making a giant application suite for a buck. But heres the Pandora, a full general purpose machine, thats also good at gaming and so forth.. thats a hard concept for people to get.

If Ed does ever write a book about the Pandora, then this is probably a good quote to put into it.


Let me mark it so it can be retrieved: #pandorabook