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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
Right now I'm back inside..... and when outside on that particular trip I did not use any multimedia....
anyway, perhaps you are not old enough to have experienced multimedia growth. In the mid to late 1990's the multimedia CD was introduced. Encyclopedias, virtual tours...etc. They were big for a while, but faded. In 2000 my PS2 could play a video game, a dvd or a cd.... and had internet connectivity (as an add on).
The new surge in "multimedia" is being fueled by the iPad, and the potential other devices that will be coming out over the next few years. Mobile devices are the rage, and that started many years ago..... Laptops have outsold desktops for several years now, and many think the "iPad like devices" will replace many of those for the HOME USER.......
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Thank you for the nice history on multimedia. I think that is the jist of my argument (or what I've been trying to get across), i.e. multimedia applications like the Alice iPad app have been possible for quite a while, and I don't think that just because we have some nice mobile devices that are a little bit bigger, and a little more transportable, that "multimedia apps" (like the Alice iPad app), will be all that big, IMO. There will probably be a window while they are the "must have/demo app" for the iPad's capabilities, but in the long term I think they'll be a niche market.