On 11/20/2009 08:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 07:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit
>>> machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely
>>> different audience.
>>>
>>
>> Oh? That's not what I got from
>>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin
> It's what I get from this web-page and what I got from testing the
> original Moblin desktop.
>
> IMO, they are targetting MID devices, competing with Android, Smart
> phones and similar.
>
> That's a completely different audience as I am talking about: People
> using netbooks, nettops and old i386s as inexpensive, "secondary"
> machine for everyday, "low end" desktop usage, such as "browsing the
> web", "word processing", "presentations", "photo
browsing" etc.
User experience part of the page says
"Users of the Fedora Moblin Spin would have a much better user
experience on their NetBook, NetTop and other small devices"
That's what
the marketing department wants it to be.
Reality speaks a different language:
* People are using their everyday desktop even on low end machines and
do not want to fiddle around with "custom netbooks desktops".
* People consider their low end machine's performance sufficient for
such use-cases.
The essentially the same rationale/reason why netbooks/nettops with
WinXP have been a huge success and why netbooks with "custom desktops"
were a failure.
Ralf