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IIRC from the launch, Celio was primarily pushing this towards enterprise customers. In the enterprise, the cost of buying a computer is usually the least important cost. The costs of managing it are far greater. That little $350 EeePC can easily end up costing a company a couple thousand a year in licensing and management costs. The only management costs associated with a Redfly is whatever is needed for asset tracking, if even.
For the consumer market I would agree that the Redfly doesn't make a lot of sense. Even in the enterprise I'm afraid there is a limited application for it. Office Mobile on the PPC is too limited for a lot of what people do with MS Office. You can get around that with SoftMaker Office, but now you're possibly looking at training non-technical users on how to use another office suite. In a lot of cases I think it is probably more productive to just give the non-technical road warrior a laptop of some kind running XP and MS Office and a way to connect back to office. The TCO for the laptop is higher, but the Redfly could potentialy bring training and compatibility issues. That's my take on it, anyway.
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