July 07, 2003
My Take on TIQIT
I've been doing some more thinking about this TIQIT brick. First, skip the XP. If this was Mac OS X, it would be a different story. If you are an XPer, have at it. You can run Outlook on here and who knows what all. I really don't recommend bloatware like Word and Excel, though, unless you must.
Here's what I like. A 10 gig hard drive for starters. Let's put a 10 or 15 gb hard drive in some of these larger 6 oz wireless PDAs. None of the other PDAs has a hard drive. And why not? The iPod has a hard drive. (Of course, the iPod doesn't have a touch screen, keyboard, or other means of entry. It's basically a read-only device...Steve Jobs, are you paying attention?).
Back to TIQIT. Don't ask me where they got the name - I suppose it is supposed to be a "hot ticket" or something. The major advantage is the 640x480 screen. Now you're talking! Wow! What a great web browsing device this is. I wondered when someone was going to give me more pixels in an almost pocketable form.
I finally figured out why it's called an enterprise device - it runs Windows XP. That means it can run a lot of enterprise apps. I don't think un-tethered individuals (read non-corporate types) need a desktop platform on a device this size. The PocketPC platform is as much as I would ever want. Of course, I would want the Mac equivalent of PocketPC. How far can that be away when we've got these new little Linux pdas and cell phones (Motorola is switching over) running around? These little guys will only get more powerful, so they will indeed run Mac OS X (if Apple wants them to).
Since I'm 99% Mac, I would like a couple of my thin and light OS X apps on here. For starters, how about NoteTaker? I would love that. Remember, I like to write down my ideas and the information I gather all over the net. I would need it to synch well to my PowerBook version of NoteTaker. I would need other basics like Kung-log to post to this blog. I would want OmniGraffle 3 for little diagrams and graphics. Oh, and Safari and Mail (or equivalent). iCal is not that good yet, but it would do for now. Address Book would be fine. Other options for the iApps would be OK too - I'm not married to iApps for a device like this.
Why all the fuss over this big brick? I guess it's because I'm an optimist and hoping for some econo-luck and a big price drop soon on a slimmer device with bluetooth, wi-fi, good keypad and 640x480. I figure running XP requires twice the baggage of any other OS so running OS X would be a piece of cake.
You probably noticed today that, for the first time, notebooks are outselling desktop machines - at least dollarwise. We are going mobile folks! Mobile devices rule and we want well-written, cool apps to run on them!
Posted by tokerud at July 7, 2003 11:52 AM
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