User Hardware
Joan E. Ricart-Costa, Brian Subirana, Josep Valor-Sabatier · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2004
Stage (4) of the value chain deals (see Figure 1.3, p. 11) with the firms who build the computer devices that end-users employ to access the Internet. The devices run software that allows them to make requests of servers over an Internet protocol (IP) network. Hardware devices have become much more diverse than just desktop and portable PCs. Fresh interactive implementations appear regularly, and now also include personal digital assistants (PDAs, also called handhelds or palmtops), third-generation mobile phones, satellite phones, televisions, entertainment/game consoles and more. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.