Well put, though I do have to disagree with your point that PDAs sucked
before palm. Did you ever use a Psion? Those suckers were *way* ahead
of their time. And their brain lives on in Symbian, though I haven't
played much with a Symbian phone lately to see if it's any good.
Meanwhile I'll stick with the device I find the least sucky of all
that's out there: my beloved Treo 680. :-)
Don Ferguson wrote:
>
> Amen to that brother Craig!!!
>
> I complain as loudly as anyone when the Treo isn't *everything* I want
> it to be, but it's *almost* everything I need it to be.
>
> Remember, Palm started this. Remember how crappy PDAs were before Palm
> came along? I do. They sucked! Palm took the world by storm and
> created the market. They have released a steady stream of
> increasingly-better Treos in the past couple of years. They're
> everywhere! People who complain about the 700p or the 680 being
> unstable should go back and read the Wall Street Journal article about
> the 700w. Yes, the latest, biggest Treo is a WinMob device now, but
> heck I just bought the 700p last June. If they came out with devices
> more often we'd be complaining about being "forced" to buy new devices
> too often! As it is, the 755p will be better than the 700, and then
> there's a whole new generation coming out at year's end. How much
> faster does anyone want them to come out with new stuff?
>
> The "rightness" of much of the original apps for the Pilot 1000 has been
> borne out by the fact that they still look pretty much like they did in
> 1996. They' re not behind - they were just very well done in the first
> place. My oft-cited efficiency metrics bear this out. Sure, I'd like
> flashier color and stuff. I can buy that, though. Ultimately that's not
> what matters. What matters is what I can get *done* with the device,
> and I'd say the 700p is about 97% of what I *need*, even if it's only
> half of what I *want*. Who knows, the 755p may be 55% of what I want,
> and the Linux-based machine might be 75%!! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Don
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-Jason
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