[NTLUG:Discuss] Things, they are a changing

[Paul Ingendorf]

Nokias inability to recognize the shortcomings of symbian will ultimately be
its demise in this endeavor.  High overhead in both bandwidth and processing
will ultimately lead to a sluggish user experience leaving a bad taste in
the consumer's mouths that will inevitably delay the technologies future
adoption.  It is easy to prove a technology it is much harder to have to
reprove it.  You also have to remember that these guys will have to make the
devices work on a lot of existing hardware of which many wireless carriers
are reluctant to upgrade until they see financial recoupment.  Add to this
the fact that there are many other solutions that are already in use and
more than adequately suit the needs of most users and you have an idea that'
s before its time.


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Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:40 PM
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Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Things, they are a changing


FYI only...
Several weeks ago I read a brief article about using two cell phones
to send Content over a Wireless link. Since then I have been thinking
about what is wrong with the Storage picture again and much more
intently. I have felt the vendors are what is wrong with Storage for a
long time. They have no idea what people really want in Storage. Just
like I thought American automobile makers had no idea what people
really wanted in an automobile. The Japanese proved me right on that
one. Maybe Scandinavia knows something we don't?
Why did this image of two tiny cell phones sending high resolution
Content peak my interest?
First I thought, "Well, we will just replace all our expensive Storage
infrastructure with hundreds, or thousands, or millions of cell phones
with preprogrammed calling". Sort of reminded me of the "good old
days" of Storage when everything was DAS (Direct Attached Storage) and
networking was "sneaker net". But my prayers for enlightenment and
guidance have been answered, even though I really didn't pray. Nokia
will light the way for the Future of Storage. My guess is that email,
as we know it, has less than three years to live.
It is possible that Nokia won't get it right and lead the way but they
have opened the door. We will be going through that door in a hurry
and not looking back. It took the Japanese automakers some time and
competition to get automobiles right.