><<What kinds of PDAs were around at the time the Newton was introduced?>>
Psion series 3 was enormously popular, at least here in the UK. Psion
looked as though it was going to become a widespread standard at that
time. I really don't understand how Psion dropped the ball so badly.
I had a friend who worked there (head of series V marketing), and he
used to take the p*son out of me for carrying my brick. The HWR did
kind of blow him away. He also told me that they sub-contracted
writing some PsiMac connection software to an operation in France,
who delivered fully working software in 2 weeks, and it turned out
that it was just one guy or a very small team. He said the Windows
connectivity took a big team many months and was late. It was an
interesting illustration of how Apple's total platform control made
development harder to start, but easier to finish...
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