They should have used a Zune or a Blackberry or Palm or HTC or LG, but I can see why they didn't. None of them are real breakthrough devices. Just another wannabe devices.
So how is that an argument they should've used them? Or... should I have said "I see what you did there" for the second time in this post which would just be tacky really.
@ Carig Palm didnt invent nor define the entire handheld category, Apple came out with the Newton in 1993 - a full 3 years before Palm. If anything Apple is responsible for much or the inventing and defining. What they were able to do was push it into mass market - but thats more of a result of Palms compatibility with PCs than anything else.
By the way the only reason Palm is even around anymore is because of the smart people at Handspring - they actually innovated and combined the Palm OS with a cell phone. Palm later bought out Handspring and their Treo cell phone and guess what - haven't done much with it since.
I can have much respect for Palm when they have basically given up in the marketplace. Handspring made it clear that there were some very smart and imaginative people working on the Palm platform - the fact that nothing has come from Palm since shows how poorly the company is run.
Do a little bit of research first will you. The Newton was light years ahead of its time. Which some say was the cause of its demise. Too much technology for the time. People could not assimilate to a new type of computing platform, specially that advanced.
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They should have used a Zune or a Blackberry or Palm or HTC or LG, but I can see why they didn't. None of them are real breakthrough devices. Just another wannabe devices.
Um, what, pray tell, is a Palm a "wannabe" of? It essentially invented/defined the entire handheld product category back in 1996.
So how is that an argument they should've used them? Or... should I have said "I see what you did there" for the second time in this post which would just be tacky really.
@craig: and never changed again...
@ Carig
Palm didnt invent nor define the entire handheld category, Apple came out with the Newton in 1993 - a full 3 years before Palm.
If anything Apple is responsible for much or the inventing and defining. What they were able to do was push it into mass market - but thats more of a result of Palms compatibility with PCs than anything else.
By the way the only reason Palm is even around anymore is because of the smart people at Handspring - they actually innovated and combined the Palm OS with a cell phone. Palm later bought out Handspring and their Treo cell phone and guess what - haven't done much with it since.
I can have much respect for Palm when they have basically given up in the marketplace. Handspring made it clear that there were some very smart and imaginative people working on the Palm platform - the fact that nothing has come from Palm since shows how poorly the company is run.
@Craig
Do a little bit of research first will you. The Newton was light years ahead of its time. Which some say was the cause of its demise. Too much technology for the time. People could not assimilate to a new type of computing platform, specially that advanced.