Seattlest: Cook Asks: What's the Worst Idea in Seattle High-Tech History?

James

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:12:15 -0800

Um, I didn't nominate FlipStart. I never heard of it before. The guy on Cook's blog who did nominate it said this: How about Vulcan thinking they could actually build a product internally (FlipStart) and then floundering around for years only to be beaten to market by many others like OQO and then Microsoft's UMPC OEMs?

samiam

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:35:38 -0800

Why would you nominate FlipStart? What is "bad" about a shirt pocket size PC that has decent battery life, a full complement of alphanumeric keys and runs full Windows XP, instead of an even more crippled version of what is itself a less than ideal OS? If you want to see a truly "bad idea", albeit a fairly successful one, carefully examine the ergonomics of a Blackberry. Maybe this is just an exercise in picking on those who are already "down"? If so, you still have kicked the wrong "corpse". The FlipStart effort certainly looks dormant from the outside at this moment, but nothing that still has Paul Allen's money behind it can be said to be dead. I'm still rooting for this device to become a market reality, and I wouldn't place the odds at less than 45-55 against...

J

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:57:17 -0800

Seattlest! (We keeeeed!)

Frank

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:46:35 -0800

I loved kozmo. That said, there was no way they could earn money. Convenient service though.