Prisoners of Legacy

But Lai also reports that lots of Eees are being sold to young Taiwanese businessmen who use them for sales presentations. And Eees are selling as fast as Asus can make them.

So it's not just third-world kids who get more innovation than our users. It's kids, women and Taiwanese salesmen.

But wait -- there's also that other widely reviewed $399 device, AppleApple's iPhoneiPhone. In Applespeak, cute is pronounced "elegant," but the iPhone is still packed with innovative features, it won't run Microsoft Office, and all the big analyst outfits pronounced it not ready for corporate use. Alles zu Apple auf CIO.de Alles zu iPhone auf CIO.de

In other words, everyone from third-world kids to Wall Street yuppies can get more innovation than corporate users.

And we in corporate IT are the ones who saddle users with PCs that really haven't changed much since the 1980s.