For those interested in Internet history, there's a very interesting roundtable discussion hosted by Walt Mossberg with Steve Case, Marc Andreessen and Brad Sil

For those interested in Internet history, there's a very interesting roundtable discussion hosted by Walt Mossberg with Steve Case, Marc Andreessen and Brad Silverberg at: https://www.wsj.com/public/current/summaries/hyperoun.htm https://www.wsj.com/public/current/summaries/hyperoun.htm. If you scroll to the question: "Brad -- you seem much less interested than Marc or Steve in the prospect for non-PC hardware to access the Internet. Can you really make the PC simple enough and cheap enough to make it a ubiquitous access device? Brad's response seems to foreshadow Microsoft's notorious mobile device strategy for the forthcoming decade leading up to the release of the iPhone: "...Given the choice of a Web appliance with a sub-optimal Web experience (because by definition it can't do everything a PC can) or a PC that gives the best Web experience, plays games, runs productivity applications and everything else you can do with a PC, we think the overwhelming majority of customers will continue to choose the PC. If the Web appliance is a 10x opportunity relative to the PC, Netscape's investments certainly don't match their rhetoric. Finally, everyone is in favor of the subsidy model, but no one has agreed to actually spend their own money to subsidize devices...."