Mobile broadband was pretty good-to-go from the start - open the box, insert the card, follow the bouncing balls.
The problem with all of these things is they're not getting consumer acceptance, really. They're getting "power user" acceptance. I've always considered the Drobo to be a very expensive way of building a 4-disk array - but you're right, the interface is designed to be pretty much foolproof.
The biggest move forward for this sort of tech is making it look pretty. iPhone, Drobo - both took existing concepts, put a shine on the interface and most critically - put it in a shiny box. Previous consumer NAS products have all been cuss-ugly and hence haven't sold well. Previous complex phones have had a crunchy interface and have been pretty cuss-ugly and .. haven't sold well outside a corporate market.
I think it's all in the fancy case. Make it pretty and it'll sell.
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Date: 2009-09-29 08:58 (UTC)The problem with all of these things is they're not getting consumer acceptance, really. They're getting "power user" acceptance. I've always considered the Drobo to be a very expensive way of building a 4-disk array - but you're right, the interface is designed to be pretty much foolproof.
The biggest move forward for this sort of tech is making it look pretty. iPhone, Drobo - both took existing concepts, put a shine on the interface and most critically - put it in a shiny box. Previous consumer NAS products have all been cuss-ugly and hence haven't sold well. Previous complex phones have had a crunchy interface and have been pretty cuss-ugly and .. haven't sold well outside a corporate market.
I think it's all in the fancy case. Make it pretty and it'll sell.
Andre (not on the DW bandwagon)