I suggest anyone who has interest is seeing what is possible with universal access, check out the iOS's "VoiceOver" mode (triple-click by default in iOS4).

VoiceOver speaks out loud whatever the sight-disabled user hovers over onscreen, then registers the choice via double-click. It's a tremendously effective system and I'm impressed at how universal it is throughout the iOS. Apple is doing some good work here that the rest of the industry would do well to pay close attention to

Without a tuner? No HDMI inputs? No remote? That's the lamest, most expensive HDTV ever.

This is the same guy who says Apple is going to put out an HDTV, too.

He's like a stopped clock that tweets two times a day -- everyone should stop paying any attention to him. Just don't look!

Ding ding ding ding ding ding!

I love Apple's products as much as anyone, but the above comment's assessment of the situation is dead-on. They *could* make it happen, they certainly could make it an imperfect option, but the real fact is that Apple wants to keep a tight control the delivery of downloadable music, video and games on this platform.

That is ok-- choice is good, and it's not a zero-sum game. Put another way: Some people do not want to install the projector, screen, soundsystem and seats of a home theater. Some people just want to watch a freakin' movie.

I second this (DNS-323 myself). Runs like a champ, very low-power, files
available to every machine (and a WD TV Live) from any room in the house.

I dunno, that dangling L shape has given me some pretty salacious ideas from time to time. Just to be safe, I'd ban Tetris too.

No filesystem access. Less space than a hard drive. Lame. :)

(For the record, I think this sounds very exciting -- the first truly new OS idea in a decade).

Check out the MSI media live bareBones. My daughter is watching Backyardigans right now via Ubuntu/Boxee. TV out has always worked, even 'out of the box.'

...followed quickly by the hardware at #2.

Seriously, they missed the boat on faster chips by about a generation, chips that would have been 'good enough' to do web browsing and video playback at a low power draw. The Geode (right?) in the XO is just too slow.

I once wrote an AppleScript bundle .app that moves Comic Sans to the trash, then emails itself out to everyone in the user's Mac OS X Address Book. In fact, I still keep it around. Enjoy.

Back when Mac OS 9 had kind-of-sort-of voice control, you could launch programs by putting them in a specific folder. I made an alias for "Unreal" -- which took up 190 MB of RAM and took about 3 minutes to load on my PM 7500. Whenever someone would come over my dorm room to use my computer, I made a point of mentioning very loudly how something was "UNREAL!" -- and then they got to sit there while 'Unreal' loaded, very, very slowly.

The article linked is incredibly vague and seems to presuppose that the trajectory of all open-source projects is up, up, up. While this is possible -- if Google puts the resources into constant improvement, Android certainly will improve -- it presupposes that Apple is going to be standing still. Not so. Apple's iPhone platform is now a moving target, and the year to two-year market advantage is going to be difficult for Android to top.

Google, as much as I love some of their products, has shown themselves to be a bit spotty with support and improvements to many of their initiatives. Everyone understands that mobile is a big deal, but if Google's decides that they can dominate search just as much on the iPhone than on their own platform, it's possible their drive to improve Android will wither.

The fact that the platform is open-source means virtually nothing to consumers, by the way. They simply want to make calls, surf the web and play games.

..."Hearst eReader Judged Colossal Failure"

If you're running boxee, you can help me test my GPL'd boxee web remote here:

http://code.google.com/p/boxee-web-remote/

Works with iPhone, or any wifi device on the same network as your boxee unit, really.