Now there are so many frankengadget mobile devices out there that the lines are blurring, meaningful distinctions are hard to draw, and our old terminology is fast fading. Is it a PDA? A smart phone? A tablet PC? A bird? A plane?
And so I propose that we begin drawing up plans for the Ultimate Mobile
Device. Actually, I've come across a very succinct article that does
just that -- check out Michael Parsons piece in the UK's Times Online.
Parsons makes the case that the critical mobile app now is really web
browsing. That's where we're all getting our news, email, pictures, TV,
etc., anyway. Here, as we say in the biz, is the nut graf: The device I really want is a mash-up of Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s MacBook Air, and a netbook: it should feel light and good in the hand like the Air, do one thing really well like the Kindle – but that one thing should be web browsing, not electronic books.
Bingo. Now, what about the other things we want? Digital music, of course. An always-on 3G data connection. And how about the phone features?
Anyway, the boys in the lab are getting excited about the idea -- and by boys I mean our colony of genetically engineered super-intelligent rhesus monkeys. I've set them a challenge: To build the ultimate mobile device from the ground up, rethinking everything, with a limitless R&D budget. And yes, I already veto'd the banana daiquiri dispenser.
Will keep you updated.
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