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I had lunch recently with someone who was a recent transplant to NY from Silicon Valley. They commented on what a great thing it was to finally ditch their car for getting around as it’s a bit of a hindrance to own a car in Manhattan. I thought about this for a while afterward, mostly remembering the few years I lived in NY when I owned a car and kept it in NY. I never drove it anywhere for fear of losing the most sacred of things in NY, my parking space. As a result, it mostly sat unused except to move it from one side of the street to the other, twice a week. (I initially had dreamed of just garaging it until I discovered that for the same money, I could have gotten it three bedrooms and a 2 baths in a nice area in NJ). The key was, I had the potential of using it anytime I wanted to. Today, I live in the NJ suburbs, no more than 15 minutes from Manhattan without traffic. Ask me why, and I’ll tell you it’s to have the advantages of the suburbs but still be close to the great museums, theater and culture of NY. Of course you might want to ask me when the last time I went to one of the great museums or saw a show on Broadway. There’s an aspirational theme associated with all this. It’s not what I do. Rather what I could do.
Technology should be aspirational not confrontational
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Michael Gartenberg
MemberPosted 1 month ago # -
Hi Michael,
Nice article. We at litl (litl.com) believe we fit your prescription for a company that tells people why our product is good and wants our customers to aspire with us to a better and easier experience of the web.
We’re developing a new user platform for the web, one which removes the claptrap from both hardware and software experiences. We want a new premium experience for our customers. No complex settings, no interminable service packs or antivirus updates. With our Easel mode, we combine the laid back experience of television with the laid forward experience of computing. We used the best designers in the US and created a radically different interface to redefine the netbook category with the litl webbook. We have the best screen on the market for its size – ultra bright and with a huge viewing angle. Through our channel strategy we’ll be taming more and more webapps and media content and building these in as a logical part of our card-based UI. Features and channels will continue to expand via our seamless remote update system, which will upgrade the software while you sleep, so the experience after purchase just gets better and better.
Check us out at litl.com.
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