Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> writes: > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen > > <roz...@geekspace.com> wrote: > > > (Oh, and: is there a better shorthand than "PMP"? I keep reading > > > "android pimps", and it just... doesn't sit right...) > > > > PIMEED.[1] > > > > -- Ben > > > > [1] Portable Individual Media Experience Enablement Device. Now > > available with Genuine People Personalities! Only from Sirius > > Cybernetics Corporation! > > MID - Mobile Internet Device. See SmartQ, CrunchTablet, even the Archos > devices. > > PMP is a Portable Music Player. Most MIDs can do music.
Seems like the market is big on synecdoche, right now--pick one random capability, and name the device by it. It's like people just can't handle the notion of `portable computer' yet. I remember someone being dumbfounded by the sight of a Nokia tablet, last year, apparently having difficulty with it not being a smartphone. The guy trying to explain it to him seemed just as dumbfounded, struggling to find any kind of straightforward terminology for it-- eventually settling on: "It's a computer. It's basically a very tiny laptop". When I went into Radio Shack to buy an Archos 5", last night, the salesguy there said: Nobody *ever* buys that GPS--it's got way too many extra features. D'oh. > If the Palm PDAs had WiFi, they'd qualify as MIDs. Turnabout: what does my *netbook* qualify as, if it *doesn't* have Wi-Fi? > They may not have had the functionality of today's Android devices, > but they got the price point. I'm not sure I'll ever buy a $400 > tablet. The smaller ones are more like $100. http://www.archos.com/ says that even the 10.1" one is `less than $300'; but maybe that's what you mean-- `I'm not sure I'll ever even *see* an Android tablet as expensive as $400'? (I don't remember how Palm Pilots were priced, back in the day...) -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/