The home PC is stablizing-- only gamers push the envelope
- There is potential in cases... quiet, small. Imagine a PC that is thin... as thin as a laptop without a screen, mouse pad, or keyboard... screw it to the botton my the cabinent, add a TV tuner, and you can check the mail, weather, calendar, tasks, pay bills... where you used to. In the kitchen... oh, and use it to set the thermostat, sprinklers, and security system.
- Why is there no mainstream monitor with a video cam built in.
- What about a monitor/TV that mounts in the kitchen... with a microphone, video cam built in. Better have a red blinking light when the camera is on!
The automobile is the next bastion
- Auto TIVO for the car
- with GPS, location based services, concerige push... with a client in the home, or where ever people want it.... a new applicaiton. Call your friend, get directions... just tell him your IP address
- Software runs as a server at home. Collecting stuff for your car, and caching it there. How? the autoPC is has a couple of USB ports, a couple of PCMCIA ports allowing commodity networking via Bluetooth (the phone in your pocket could sync files), the autoPC could sync via any 802.11 AccessPoint, and use GPRS and 1X. In fact, with 1X, GPRS the server could push information based on rules. Traffic, weather, voicemail, call logs, alerts.
- All the hardware exists
- Software is missing 1) unfied call log 2) portal for pushing 3) heuristic content collection (all clicks and reponses in the car would be feed for analysis 4)
- Who wins? PC manufactures, Networking companies, Wireless operators (a whole new source of account (making accounts sticky), Retail (Best Buy, Radio Shack), Content (iTunes, Yahoo, MSN), software, concericge services
- imagine integration with fuel gauge giving favorite gas station reminders (how does it know the favorite) GPS... it knows where you frequent
