Making a credit card payment or booking a train ticket from a WAP screen, for example, does not require a fancy graphical interface.
You can talk to it through its fancy Siri interface, or take and organize gorgeous photos based on location and time.
Although consumers currently cannot buy an iPaq with Linux installed, Linux software on the iPaq uses the full power of the hand-held's processor to deliver a fancy user interface and to record and play back sound.
"This stuff is not just a fancy user interface.
Our goal isn't to take info and regurgitate it in a fancy user interface.
She goes into a store, buys a computer, and finds it can't run Microsoft Vista's fancy Aero interface.
Low-level programming at the hardware level is a much different craft than consumer-facing, fancy graphical interface development.
"A lot of companies are looking at mobile apps as a fancy user interface, and they're putting their protection on the back-end behind their firewall," she said.
And if a new national protocol is ever finally implemented, even the fanciest digital interface currently in use might not be compatible with it.
It goes something like this: You have your gaming PC with its vast hard drive and whatnot in one room, and your fancy Steam Controller interfacing with your Steam Machine in your TV room.
