Re: UKNM: Whats next after Freeserve?

[James Downes]

Robert X Cringely (love him or hate him, he is well connected), outlined

a free PC scenario, not based on the FREE-PC model, but closer to the

Mobile Phone model. See

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit19980924.html for details.


The article was posted last september, so the cost of the hardware side

of this equation has changed for the better significantly since then.

Remember hardly anyone needs State of the Art CPUs (Pentium III at 450

MHz or whatever), certainly not for surfing.


As far as the Internet is concerned this also starts to mop up those

people who wouldn't consider buying a PC, which means you're getting new

consumers, not people moving from a different supplier.



james downes

bdmedia

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