These things sold in the tens of millions and I saw them everywhere. I'm a Brit: I used a Psion. My PDA didn't sync with my desktop; I didn't do that stuff on the desktop, I did it in a better, far more reliable computer in my pocket.
As Palms caught on, I blew the owners' minds by IRDA zapping them contact details.
The point being that there was a time everyone with an office corporate job carried them.
To a lesser extent, Nokia, WinCE, Sony-Ericsson etc. Those gadgets sold in vast numbers, too.
I mean, yes, compared to the modern smartphone industry, which is 10-100x the size of the entire PC industry including servers...
But "false starts"? $ multi-billion companies with household-name products?
I would be extraordinarily happy with a "false start" such as that!
It strikes me as like saying bicycles were a false start because more people do more miles in cars.
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I did a double-take at that.
False starts? The Palm? Blackberry?
These things sold in the tens of millions and I saw them everywhere. I'm a Brit: I used a Psion. My PDA didn't sync with my desktop; I didn't do that stuff on the desktop, I did it in a better, far more reliable computer in my pocket.
As Palms caught on, I blew the owners' minds by IRDA zapping them contact details.
The point being that there was a time everyone with an office corporate job carried them.
To a lesser extent, Nokia, WinCE, Sony-Ericsson etc. Those gadgets sold in vast numbers, too.
I mean, yes, compared to the modern smartphone industry, which is 10-100x the size of the entire PC industry including servers...
But "false starts"? $ multi-billion companies with household-name products?
I would be extraordinarily happy with a "false start" such as that!
It strikes me as like saying bicycles were a false start because more people do more miles in cars.