Oh man, I loved the Clie - high-res before high-res was a thing on that platform, a nice Blackberry-style scrollwheel on the side (sorely underrated feature, that), tough as nails and marred only by the earthshatteringly mediocre Palm Desktop program it used for syncing. I played the hell out of Warfare Inc on that thing. Palm OS was a tragedy - the loss of the Graffiti patent battle just ruined the platform, and it could've really done spectacular things going into the WiFi era.
But yeah, Sony seems like a very divided company - if the myriad divisions got together to work on a single unified customer-facing infrastructure of devices and e-store and whatnot, they could re-take that spectacular brand power they had in the early '90s. But their internal politics will never allow that, sadly.
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Oh man, I loved the Clie - high-res before high-res was a thing on that platform, a nice Blackberry-style scrollwheel on the side (sorely underrated feature, that), tough as nails and marred only by the earthshatteringly mediocre Palm Desktop program it used for syncing. I played the hell out of Warfare Inc on that thing. Palm OS was a tragedy - the loss of the Graffiti patent battle just ruined the platform, and it could've really done spectacular things going into the WiFi era.
But yeah, Sony seems like a very divided company - if the myriad divisions got together to work on a single unified customer-facing infrastructure of devices and e-store and whatnot, they could re-take that spectacular brand power they had in the early '90s. But their internal politics will never allow that, sadly.