Today was an exciting day as I was working in the Panera Bread and spotted someone actually using an EEE PC! She is a college student who bought the EEE PC for the low price and was tapping away doing a paper for school. Tapping is the definitive word as it was the little bitty one with a tiny keyboard and touch typing was not an option. She said it didn’t matter though as the cheap price made it possible for her to buy it, otherwise she’d be doing the work with pen and paper. Now that’s a real trooper and why the netbook is so important a product for students.
While I have been here working I have been using the T-Mobile G1 for email and generally playing with it and it’s captured some attention. I have noticed since I’ve been using it that the folks who approach and ask about it fall in two categories: geeks and regular people (non-geeks). I noticed this because the geeks who ask about the phone always ask "is that the G1?" and the non-geeks invariably ask "is that the Google phone?". This is almost without fail and shows the power of marketing. I don’t know what folks will call the next Android phone since it can’t just be the "Google phone".
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