technology: echo "Hello World"

This post has been sparked by two things.
Firstly, a brilliantly funny video from LoadingReadyRun.
Secondly, the most pointless device I have ever seen.

It is vogue to despise Microsoft because they are an evil corporation that is destroying competition, as a result more and more companies are turning to 'Open Source' solutions as a way to save licensing and attract the 'trendy' market who want to lord it over their Windows using friends because they run 'teh linux'.
But as netbooks sales are falling manufacturers need more  devices to run linux. That sentence just went on forever.

Enter Linux phones, and I am not talking about Android. Motorola have hailed in a new device that can run a full linux distribution. But how can you run Linux on a 2" screen with no buttons or mouse, you can't it just isn't possible, so to get around this Motorola will sell you a laptop which you plug your Linux powered phone into.

When you have to do this to make your device run Linux it's time to give up on the idea, when your phone looks like this you might as well just carry around a laptop. It's the complete opposite of convergence.