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Motorola Atrix = Palm Foleo?

by snoldak924 on 3/29/11, 4:39 AM with 1 comments

Anyone remember the Foleo? Seems to have come 4 years too early.

  • by phlux on 3/29/11, 5:32 AM

    Five years ago I met with some people from google and some then colleagues of mine. I was trying to recruit developers to make then, what today is the Atrix.

    Specifically - I had spec'd up a dist of linux that would work the way the Atrix claims to today... it was based on a kiosk computing design white paper I wrote in 2002...

    I couldn't convince anyone at the time with my main premise which was that going forward 100% of our digital identity would be carried in the phone.

    The problem that the current implementations of such systems have is that they are being driving by the wrong organizations - Carriers and Handset Manufacturers... the parties with the least innovation incentive. The ONLY incentive ANY of these companies have is incremental profit.