I am the smartest man alive
Not surprisingly, 3Com has killed the Audrey, their ill-fated web appliance:
The $500 device led a vanguard of Web-browsing gadgets aimed at families and users anxious to send and receive e-mail, but uneasy about buying a pricey personal computer system, seen by some as difficult to set up and maintain.
Isn’t $500 a little ‘pricey’ for a device that sends and receives text files? I mean, hell, I could buy one of those computers you use at the library to look up books to do that shit. And an 8″ screen? Please. You can hardly see pictures your friends email you on that (or 5MB movies about cars…).