jonsteinberg

I bought reMail 1 and just bought 2? this was not a free upgrade? Either way worth it. Downloading everything is very cool.

Also is it possible to have multiple accounts in the app? My gmail and IMAP? or 2 gmails - regular and corp.

I think there are fewer and fewer apps that people need that are not cloud based. The only ones I can really think of for most consumers are the MS Office suite. Any most of these people will be happy with a cloud or open alternative if they give it a shot.

Especially given that most OS dependent apps (i.e. Photoshop) are not really practical for netbook processors limits.

As someone who did the MBA, I think it's an incredibly valuable asset but one that is mispriced and too long in duration. I've gotten more experience building apps on elance and trying to build business cases. The valuable insights can be gained from the books of the best lecturers (in my case Bruce Greenwald http://bit.ly/Vz5SL) and direct correspondence.

I think the MBA should be 3-6 months long and priced accordingly. And have a larger entrepreneurship component for those that are so inclined.

I've looked at this space a bunch and even played around with building an ubuntu launcher: http://drop.io/piedesktop

The deb file is up there.

I think that the alternatives to windows work much better on these machines. The ubuntu Netbook Remix is very friendly for those inexperienced with Linux, and Jolicloud, which is really just an app installer platform for Ubuntu, takes a lot of the hassle out of using repositories for app identification and install.

This is all a lot of lead up to my belief that OS is mattering less and less. In fact 26% of survey respondents said they didn't care about Netbook OS as long as it "got them on the web." I think the hardware manufacturers are risk averse but really not watching the market and demand. Big startup opportunity I think...

I compiled a research survey here: http://drop.io/piedesktop/asset/netbook-market-research-over...