Random mobile tech thoughts while running

I just got back from a seven mile run to break up the day and had some random thoughts come to mind. Don’t worry, I’ve already showered, so the post is sanitary.

  • The Asus Eee PC looks like a nice little lappy and many folks seem excited about it. Is it really that different from the Palm "please don’t remember my name" Foleo? Are they miles apart or actually relatively similar in terms of use cases?
  • Some versions of Vista include all of the Tablet PC bits, so there was much talk last year of Vista helping the Tablet PC market. Is it me or have we seen no more or no less new Tablet PCs introduced than in the last few years prior to Vista?
  • Speaking of Tablet PCs, why does inking get such a bad rap? All of the folks in the keyboard camp: have you truly given inking a several week trial or did you give up in under a week? (Note: if you tried and it doesn’t work for you, I respect your choice.)
  • Related: as nice as it is to have an indicator of textual input speed percentages across multiple input types, i.e.: keyboards of various sizes, speech, ink, etc… when did it become vogue to benchmark humans?
  • Did UMPCs fail the concept of a "companion device" or did we fail to grasp the concept when we (myself included) attempted to use them as full time mobile devices?
  • Will the fact that Apple is releasing an SDK for third party iPhone apps add further momentum for consumers to buy the device or did Steve have you at "Hello"?
  • Related: what are the odds that Apple finds a way to sell the iPhone apps solely through iTunes so they can make a cut off every title?
  • Why is it in my Commonwealth that we buy our liquor in a State Store and still try to state our case for Liquor Stores? OK, that’s not mobile tech related, but those archaic laws have been in place since Prohibition and I want to know why. ;)

While I sit back, drink a protein shake and read RSS feeds, talk amongst yourselves in the comments.

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