nytimes.com— DirecTV and Verizon have app stores. Other cable, satellite and phone companies are working on new technology, but the industry is still wrestling with many questions.
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The Newton was a major failure. The Palm Pilot was THE gadget to have at the time. It had a distinct advantage on uptake over the iPhone because it was an open system and not tied to a service contract - or a service for that matter as pagers and analog cell phones were still the big thing.. The market was pretty much taken over by Blackberry and who still holds it.
4antistupidSep 7, 2009
The extendable embedded system and not the TV part.
fuzzynyankoSep 7, 2009
I'm for it if it can get rid of my Scientific Atlanta Explorer box
davriozaSep 7, 2009
For you maybe...!
texaSep 7, 2009
Well, if that's the case, they did it wrong. Or else it would be as popular as the iPhone.
4antistupidSep 7, 2009
The Newton was a major failure. The Palm Pilot was THE gadget to have at the time. It had a distinct advantage on uptake over the iPhone because it was an open system and not tied to a service contract - or a service for that matter as pagers and analog cell phones were still the big thing.. The market was pretty much taken over by Blackberry and who still holds it.
4antistupidSep 7, 2009
What they need is a cable card standard that supports all the features of a cable box and then let companies go nuts building the user interface side.
zbeastSep 8, 2009
Hmmm I have a HTPC with bittorrent on it .. I really don't need anything else execpt more storage space.