Joe, I suspect you’re right to some extent. Historically, general purpose computers drive out special-purpose ones because it’s too easy to add general-purpose features to a special-purpose device.
If you look over at my “computers in ten years” piece, you’ll notice I was talking about a “$20 Mac Air”. My day job research has a lot to do with how we’ll make a small cheap device look like a much bigger device by exploiting the Internet and the “compute cloud”; if that, or something similar, works out, then I can imagine a “Kindle” application for the general purpose netbook.
John, my Kindle only has about 200 MB of storage, so I’m confident it would be trouble, although you can add an SD card for more space if you want. But what I want to know is where in God’s name are you finding 250MB PDF files?
