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maandag 10 november 2003
UPDATE, January 27
Some information for English speaking visitors to this blog that got here through the
Slashdot-article: just to get the story straight, the
boxes in the picture on my site are similar to the ones that were featured in this week's
PC World. There's nothing secret about these devices: they connect your tv to your home network. As I understand, they were seen all over this year's CES. What I wrote below in the original (Dutch) posting was that the Strangeberry guys drove to Fry's one day to buy the components to build these kind of devices. And that they managed to do so pretty quickly; meaning that these are smart guys and also that there's not much of a barrier to entry in this market - providing there is a market. I never meant to imply or infer that these were the kind of machines Strangeberry was actually developing as their core business, just that they are working on technology for this space. As the
official Tivo statement says: 'Strangeberry has created technology (...) designed to enable the development of new broadband-based content delivery services.' And as you can judge by
the resumes of the Strangeberry guys, they are software specialists, not hardware guys. Just to be clear: I am not associated with Strangeberry in any way. I am just a friend of Arthur's, as I wrote on my
personal blog about the acquisition of Smartberry by Tivo. Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Makes me think of doing this media & technology blog in English... nah, too much work, and this was supposed to be a hobby ;-)
Original posting, November 10
In een voormalige winkel in
Palo Alto zit een start up waarvan de oprichters op een lauwe dinsdagmiddag naar
Fry's Electronics zijn gereden om componenten te kopen waaruit ze deze vreemde kastjes hebben gebouwd. Ik denk dat binnen twee jaar iedereen met een DSL- of kabelaansluiting zo'n kastje in huis heeft. Meer mag ik er van de oprichters niet over zeggen, want die hebben de illusie dat ik er veel van snap en dus veel kan verklappen, een tragisch misverstand. Ze zijn heel bedreven in het 'onder de radar' blijven, maar intussen lopen bedrijven als
Apple en
Google de deur bij ze plat. Ik zie Philips of Shell niet zo snel audientie vragen bij een paar nerds uit Delft. Helaas.
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