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by BillSeitz
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May 13, 2008 8:35 pm |
Michael Mace makes the case for development of an [InfoPad] - a MobIle device bigger than a Smart Phone but smaller than a LapTop. He's targeting what he defines as an [Information Lover] Market Segment. The third group is professionals who are more introverted, people who deal a lot with information rather than communications. The information could be documents, it could be databases, it could even be artwork. But the emphasis is on the individual's interaction with that information (Thinking Space). Think doctors, artists, educators, and researchers. The ideal mobile device for these people is...well, it doesn't exist.
He considers [Sketch Ing]/handwriting to be a key requirement: no Hand Writing conversion, but recognition for the sake of indexing for recall (Life Streams, Ms One Note). You write on the screen and it captures your notes and drawings. It's as much like writing on a pad of paper as possible, because the thing you're replacing is the paper notepad or journal that students and knowledge workers carry with them all the time.
He sees a follow-on use to be creation of an EBook Eco System equivalent to ITunes. People will buy it to take notes and archive documents (Compell Ing), but the hardware I've described above is also ideal for reading ebooks... In the long term, the content store becomes the core of our business.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog