I read through this and the author sees "NO FUTURE" (emphasis his) in PDAs. I do not share his feelings. His main arguments are that people are lazy and don't want to learn new things. Having been in technology for over a decade, it's basically the very few who do not want to learn new things. They are the people who hound help desks out of lonliness or stubborness.
People learn new things when they want a benefit in the end. After all, who here knew how to work an iPOD 5 years ago? 0% of us. But now that they provide the benefit of an entire CD collection in your pocket, heck yeah! Let's learn how to use it! It's the same thing with Pocket PCs, Palms and anything else. If you have no reason to use one, then why learn it?
For a full fledged OS to replace a Pocket PC or a Palm, it has to do two things no desktop does well right now. It has to go from being powered all the way down to fully awake in 1 second or less - automatically. If it doesn't wake or boot automatically, no alarms will sound. If it doesn't wake quickly, you won't use it.
JMHO,
Brad |