Re: [NTLK] Emate redux?

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 01:05:48 PDT


On Friday 04 July 2003 00:49, Brian Pearce wrote:
> > Hey, a Palm is not too bad as an electronic version of the Success
> > Agenda.
> > That doesn't mean it'll be any good at trying to be a real computer...
>
> I don't think the AlphaSmart products are trying to do too much more
> than provide basic word processing functions.
>
> I can't help but find the defensive reactions to other PDA platforms I
> see here kind of amusing. Not that they don't have their own faults
> (some more than others, and some are way out in left field), but are
> competing platforms *that* much of a threat to our personal computing
> ideology?

Nah. Some of my best friends have Palms.

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