At 3:57 PM -0700 2/26/01, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > what i do care about is the fact that ASCII memos can't be
>reformatted. that
>> is just plain silly.
>
>Marshall, do you think tiny PDA displays will be with us for a
>substantial amount of time? It seems to me that, with the rate
>display technology moves forward at, by the time we all finish
>arguing over this the current crop of postage-stamp size PDA
>displays will be ancient history.
>
>There's more to this than just ID's/RFCs. Pretty damned near
>everything has to be reformatted to fit on those itty-bitty screens,
>and that just isn't going to happen. Consumers will demand (and
>get) readable displays. I really think we're better of fixing this
>problem in hardware.
>
>--lyndon
Are your pockets getting any bigger, I don't see anyone carrying a
laptop holster on their belts?
The reason that PDA screens are small are because PDAs are small.
Apple Newton (which I still own) had a larger screen but it wasn't as
convenient as a Palm to carry around.
I have read reasonable size text docs on both and it is really not that bad.
Bora
