'Audrey' To Bring The Web Home?
From CNN:
Palm announced a new web-gadget: the Audrey. It looks an awful lot like a toilet bowl with an 8″ screen. Will you buy one? Not me. I already have an iMac, I don’t need something LESS powerful, with a tiny monitor to do FEWER things, for only a couple hundred bucks cheaper (they’re $499-$599, depending on the color… I don’t understand, either).
I guess what I think about when I see another one of these things really isn’t whether they’ll sell (they won’t), but how much of a bitch it would be if these damn things became commonplace, at least from a development standpoint. We have enough problems with 4 major browsers (well, 2 MS browsers, if you believe some people) to code for, let alone potentially millions of these things. All of them happen to run their own bastardized versions of god-knows-what, adhering to HTML standards I don’t think, and they don’t even really have video cards, at least not good ones. I’ve viewed my personal design site on an iOpener, and it took FOREVER to load, and looked like shit.
At least they might reduce the amount of shitty Flash out there.
HA. Right.