I have a Power Mac 8500 with a Sonnet Crescendo 400 Mhz G4/PSI upgrade Processor card running Mac OS 8.6. I installed a IOGear USB 2.0 PCI Card-GIC220UW1 which says it works with OS 8.6. I installed the recommended software "USB Support 1.4.1 smi " from apple.com. The card shows in the Apple System Profiler but I still cannot mount or see any USB devices when I plug them into the USB ports. I cannot see the new usb hard drive nor my small Lexor JumpDrive. The manufacturer says it should just plug and play. The card works in an IBM computer. Any ideas why it is not working or performing other tests? :rolleyes:Session Name: With So Many Devices, is Software the New Black?
Ladies and gentlemen, please take your sits, the program is about to begin.
Please welcome your MC, Chris Albrecht back to the stage.
All right, home stretch, here we are. I’m not going to go through the house keeping, kind of things, because if you don’t know him by now, you’ll never going to know him. So I’m just going to bring out our next guest, who I forgot to mention last time, so she had an Internet of Things discussion earlier. She is actually the host of our Internet of Things podcast which I highly recommend you listen to. You can find it on iTunes, on SoundCloud, and at GigaOM, just look for the Internet of Things podcast and you’ll be able to listen to Stacy interview all kinds of people across the IoT space every week that comes out every Tuesday by the way. So, she’s going to be talking with Curtis Sasaki of Samsung Electronics about: With so many devices, is software the new black? Please welcome, Stacey and Curtis out to the stage.
I could’ve listen to that music a lot more, I’m like in my groove on. All right, I’m back. I’m ready to be excited about the Smart Home again, and Curtis has graciously agreed to let me question him about all kinds of things that I’ve been wondering. I’m actually a huge Samsung person in terms of… I’ve got a phone. I was eyeing up your watch and I was kind of excited. See, that’s not a phone. That’s like a mini tablet. I don’t know– [chuckle] It’s too much phone for me. And because I’m obsessed with the Internet of Things and the Smart Home, I thought I’d be great to talk with you about the television, because we had this conversation and we talked about like the Xbox and computer site, and projections, and microphones, and it was amazing and kind of exiting. But it ignored the fact that I have like a 50 semi-inched television in my living room, and what am I going to do with that?
Sure. Well, I think if you look at our 2013 TV, it already has some pretty amazing capabilities built-in. It’s got even motion detect– you can actually change the volume by waving at your TV, and the remote has a microphone so you can actually do a voice recognition to change channels. But I think the more important thing is how our consumers actually now using– what are they actually doing when sit in front of a TV. I think that’s been a interesting shift where– I don’t know if we’re becoming a more of an ADD society, but when I’m watching TV I have sort of my tablet here – and I’m sure some of you guys probably do the same things as I do – and have your phone on this side. That’s three screen already, and then now with the watch, there’s actually four screens. I think there’s a change of behavior now happening where before when people watch TV it was sort of this always this lean-back experience, but now I’m not sure if it’s a sort of lean-forward or lean-halfway because you’re doing this watching TV. So, I think companies like Samsung, what we’ve been looking at is, how do you begin to create experiences that begin to augment the experiences. And when families are watching TV now, I don’t know about you, but we’re seeing where– like if I take a photo of my daughter and I want to immediately share it with the whole family, do you actually do this and pass you phone around?
See, and I’ve got a small screen.
But the kinds of experience that we actually want to create is, have a photo on my phone and I just go, ‘hoop’ and immediately share it on beautiful TV. So, last week we have First Developers Conference and we showed things like that. We had an application where you had Twitter feed here, you’re watching a soccer game, and rather than everybody tuning into the Twitter, I just go, boom! And just that portion of the Twitter that was important, we show up on the TV. Not the whole Twitter application but just the feed itself. So I think the kinds of things that we’re pretty excited about is this whole multi-screen experiences that not just about marrying the experience from here to a TV, but really creating this augmented experience.
I mean, we are seeing some pretty clever applications. I saw one where – I think it was Pizza Hut – where they actually have a timeline of when you place an order, like it’s in the oven, and it’s like, it’s now in a delivery truck.
Is that– does that run on my TV now?
Well, I think that’s where it’s going to go, right?
We showed an example with Pandora last week where, just as you said, you listen to Pandora in the car, before you exit the car the phone kind of picks up on it and knows what you’re listening to. And then, now when you’re sort of in front of your TV, the TV also knows that your phone is there, and your phone is sort of your ID as well. Basically, the music just continued playing on your TV through your audio system.
So how do you do that? Like I don’t want to leave my TV on all the time, how does that work?
Like in poltergeist?
Well, no, no, not poltergeist, that’d be a little bit too creepy. But we have now this contextual smart alarms on our devices, and rather than only sort of waking up on the phone with alarm or music, why can’t it turn your TV on and actually know it’s you waking up, so you like certain news, or you like a cooking show or whatever, you can certainly tune on to all those kinds of things.
So, we’re supposed to be talking about software being the new black, so we’ll move from televisions and kind of into that software realm, but one of the things that’s very consistent across the Samsung ecosystem, and it is becoming an ecosystem, is these things all need to work together and the software is kind of the magic that’s holding it together, does that mean that you guys need you own version of the Play Store or iTunes?
Well, I think at the end of the day, Samsung is a very innovative company. If you look at our devices today, these support multiple Windows. You can run multiple applications at the same time. They also have this really cool smart pen here. And when consumers actually purchase these products, they really want applications that take advantage of it. So, how do they actually find the best applications? So, it’s more about making sure consumers have a great experience with their products, so having that store front really allows us to create the best sort of applications that take advantage of our futures. Then that ultimately does two things: It makes developers happy because they can get in front of a lot of our consumers. And B: It makes the consumers happy because you know those applications are optimized.
So that exist today?
Yeah, yeah, sure is.
I don’t have checkbook.
There you go, you don’t have a checkbook, but what kind of things should Samsung be thinking about? Like, what kind of company should Samsung be buying if software is the new black and you’re trying to–?
In Silicon Valley we actually have a pretty good presence of folks who are actually working with start-up companies already. We do investments in key companies, so that’s already been happening for a while now so it’s not new. I think, obviously, with any company, they look at both organic and inorganic ways to grow, so it’s a great opportunity.
So then, there’s this tablet, there’s televisions, there’s appliances, you guys have all of these kind of– and there’s this idea that I can only buy Samsung to get this awesome experience, but once again, consumers don’t usually buy things that way. I think I have a Samsung washing machine and maybe even a drier, and I like the idea of it telling my Smartphone when it’s ready, that’s awesome.
I showed you last year.
But I don’t have a Samsung refrigerator, so does that mean the fridge will never tell me via my phone that it needs more– I need more milk?
I think for us, we think we have to think about what the right use cases are across all these devices, and the fact that we actually make everything from microwave ovens to refrigerators to– I was telling you in the back