Intel, Microsoft and Japanese online payments company Bit Wallet have teamed up to develop a mobile PC platform designed to bring computing to those traditionally considered to be unfamiliar with shopping online, browsing the web or sitting at a desktop PC. Like housewives, apparently.
There’s no mouse or keyboard, to make it more friendly for folk unused to such input devices, and Intel, Microsoft and Edy said they want to see apps with simple, button-based interfaces to come to the platform the better to appeal to people with little or no PC experience.
(Slate DT FeliCa.)
It looks likely the first device will be manufactured by local hardware company PBJ, which has already used Intel CPUs in its existing mobile devices.
More at Reg Hardware
Anyway, I think this is a good effort. This is a rather small news but I like the idea that they’re targeting housewives. Housewives is perhaps of the least tapped groups of people in the society to use computers. Exposing them to new technologies may be a good idea. And in return, I too hope that computers are easier to use since computers have to be housewives-friendly in future.
Our computers are just too hard to use. My aunt is still stuck thinking that the monitor contains the CPU. I encouraged her to get a Mac already.
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