Re: Need help for Engineering Management project

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"Bill Kearney" <wkearney-99@hot-mail-com> wrote in message
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>> An Ibode would entail lots and lots of little devices and a big
>> primary controller.  Clearly not their style.
>
> I worked with Apple on their failed Newton product.  A tragedy on a whole
> number of levels.  But there was one fundamental problem, people without
> 'lives' were attempting to write lifestyle devices.  That's like asking
> deaf
> people to make musical instruments.  No insult intended based on hearing
> impairment, of course.  So going the next step and asking them to create a
> system that integrates with the home is perhaps likewise unrealistic.
> Mainly because they NEVER GO HOME, or certainly don't have a life that
> doesn't intimately involve access to computers.
>
> Then there's the whole misplaced hero-worship thing expecting the company
> to
> be interested in playing along with the game.  The policy is almost
> exactly
> the opposite, for if they picked up on someone else's ideas, even freely
> suggested, it'd present an intellectual property nightmare.
>
>> Good luck, Clay and sorry for the rough introduction!
>
> More like wake up and smell the realities beyond a college project.  Don't
> get me wrong, enthusiasm is a wonderful thing.  But the combination of
> naivete, misunderstandings of usenet/google, help with homework, etc, have
> been seen countless times before.  So yeah, there's certainly some 'grumpy
> old men' sentiment but it's based on actual experience.  Learn from it.
>
> -Bill Kearney

Oh, do, please, explain the realities beyond a college project. Educate us
about the combination of naivete, misunderstandings of usenet/google,
help with homework, etc.

I don't know that I UNDERSTAND. Please explain yourself.

Michael