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Apple just bookended the PDA era
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They ushered it in.
And now they killed it.
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I don't see the end of the $100-200 PDA and $200-300 smart phone era anytime soon.
What they may have killed was the OQO.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
I don't see the end of the $100-200 PDA and $200-300 smart phone era anytime soon.
What they may have killed was the OQO.
And Origami.
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I dunno, I don't think the iphone will work very well for many of the things people use pda's and things like the origami systems for.
You're not going to enter data into forms on the iphone(think sales people, workers in warehouses, engineers in the field, etc), you're not going to work on a spreadsheet, do any word processing, etc. While these things don't work "well" on pda's and small tablet pc's, they are some of the primary things people use them for.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
And Origami.
haha did origami ever produce anything? Worst viral marketing effort EVER.
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Originally Posted by brapper
haha did origami ever produce anything? Worst viral marketing effort EVER.
I think Toshiba made one. The OQO had been out already that the Origami was a head scratcher.
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Traditional PDAs have been dead for like, forever.
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You're right, PDAs didn't do most things well. I've been with Palm since the IIIxe with my last Palm being the Zire 71, and while I always wanted to get excited the possibilities of the little devices, they always came up short, and their use trailed off significantly.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
I think Toshiba made one. The OQO had been out already that the Origami was a head scratcher.
Yeah, what the hell. I wanted to play Halo on an origami.
-Owl
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Originally Posted by Eug Wanker
Traditional PDAs have been dead for like, forever.
Indeed. Phones killed traditional PDAs long ago. The term "smartphone" has been meaningless for years. Every mobile phone has an address book and calendar, and most can do everything else PDAs do and more.
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Qualcomm pdQ: the beginning of the end for the PDA.
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