Comments on: Scoble’s solutions won’t shut down mini-MSFT http://mediacenter.mattgoyer.com/archives/2006/04/25/1104 the race to win the living room Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: rgreenpc http://mediacenter.mattgoyer.com/archives/2006/04/25/1104/comment-page-1#comment-302 rgreenpc Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:56:28 +0000 http://mediacenter.mattgoyer.com/archives/2006/04/25/1104#comment-302 Re: "Terabyte storage for everyone...That aside, how does giving this to everyone change actually change anything? Scoble doesn’t offer any clear end user benefits that a terabyte would bring to justify the cost. Why would my mother wants this? And how do we profit from it? " Spot on Matt - My personal feelings are that no matter how cheap it gets, a TB storage solution does my 68 year old mother no good. Nada, Zip, Zilch, Bubkis. She has her (gulp) TIVO and is content. She doesnt store MP3s, she doesn't backup DVDs, etc. You can't assume mass market appeal without first identifying whom in the mass market would use the storage. I have close to 2TBs but I sit here wondering WHY I should stick my DVDs on my NAS, when HD-DVDs will be out soon and be of much better quality. We are reaching a point of diminishing returns. The time I waste ripping my DVDs to the storage system, could be better spent doing any other number of things. Maybe I am just having nerd's remourse. Re: “Terabyte storage for everyone…That aside, how does giving this to everyone change actually change anything? Scoble doesn’t offer any clear end user benefits that a terabyte would bring to justify the cost. Why would my mother wants this? And how do we profit from it? ”

Spot on Matt -
My personal feelings are that no matter how cheap it gets, a TB storage solution does my 68 year old mother no good. Nada, Zip, Zilch, Bubkis. She has her (gulp) TIVO and is content. She doesnt store MP3s, she doesn’t backup DVDs, etc.

You can’t assume mass market appeal without first identifying whom in the mass market would use the storage.

I have close to 2TBs but I sit here wondering WHY I should stick my DVDs on my NAS, when HD-DVDs will be out soon and be of much better quality. We are reaching a point of diminishing returns. The time I waste ripping my DVDs to the storage system, could be better spent doing any other number of things.

Maybe I am just having nerd’s remourse.

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