In following the Roka/Netflix player discussion, I was thinking that
there's always been a push to simplify functionality down to the bare
essentials.
When everyone was trying to put PCs in your pocket, Palm came out with
with an elegant, brain-dead device that didn't do much, but what it
did was the necessary components.
Pauric (if I understand his arguments) was saying that the Roka box
was the wrong direction, because its more limiting than using a real
computer in its place (ala Apple TV-ish).
Then, in my email this morning, Best Buy shows me this device:
