| Graphite500 2006-08-02, 7:48 pm |
| In article <1147371799.548418.4670@q12g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Air Raid" <AirRaidJet@gmail.com> wrote:
quote:
> Roughly 7 years (closing in on 8 if you count Japan) after Sega
> introduces web browsing on the Dreamcast via the Dream Passport (japan)
> Planetweb (U.S.) and DreamKey (U.K/Europe) web browsers, not even
> counting earlier efforts like Sega Saturn NetLink browsers or WebTV (or
> any of the others, AOLTV, I-Opener, PS2 with Linux, etc.).
> Nintendo is *finally* catching up on the console side. we'll be able to
> surf the web on the Nintendo Wii game console (formerly known as
> Revolution) .... in addition to surfing the web on the Nintendo DS
> handheld with a mobile version of the Opera browser.
An old second rate web browser, made irrelevant by Firefox, matched with
a new second rate game console, named after urine. Sounds like a match
made in hell.
Like other internet compatible game boxes before, they are to play games
on the internet. Not to surf the web.
Because as the long slow failure of WebTV has proven, no matter how much
money Micro$oft continues to throw at it. There is no market for
internet on low resolution TV screens. Except, for an ever shrinking
very small nitch, of technology challenged, computer phobic, old people.
--
"MSNTV 2 technical support is not as bad as I have imagined.
As a matter of fact, now we have more tools to get rid of the customer.
Things such as a modem test is a heaven-sent since we can tell them
in order for the test to work, they have to hang up with us first."
William Yu, 2005
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