From: Marcus Hammerschmitt (Marcus.Hammerschmitt_at_t-online.de)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 15:07:30 PDT
At 22:23 19.08.2005, you wrote:
>And it's not just a dynamic link to
>another database like it is in other PDAs, but it is
>an *awareness* of the other application's ability to
>share data.
Well, that be might just a perfect example for what
Muniz and Schau call "anhtropomorphization" of the
Newt by its owners.
http://userinnovation.mit.edu/papers/MunizSchauNewton.pdf
"Awareness" - now give me a break. I know by know
about the very real differences between a file-
a soupbased system, I can see that Larry Yaeger is a genius and all
ftp://ftp.apple.com/research/neural/larryy/ANHR/AIMag/Yaegeretal.AIMag.pdf
but "awareness" - come on.
>(I don't know enough
>about the Palm to know if they do this)
It won't help to tell you that my Palm IIIc installs
apps & files and syncs via infrared like a charm, will
it?
>It's this level of autonomous existance (...)
Here we go again ...
Best,
Marcus
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