From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 13:19:12 PDT
On Thursday 03 July 2003 16:54, Brian Pearce wrote:
> > It's a freakin' *Palm* , fergossakes!!!
>
> Why is that, by definition, a bad thing? It's a rugged device that's
> been designed (primarily for a specific market) to do one thing well.
> In many ways, it's the logical next step the Emate might have taken;
> lower cost, more durable (the smaller screen is probably less prone to
> damage), and it does the few tasks that it needs to do well. (Licensing
> the Palm OS for the device was probably less expensive than building
> one from the ground up.) Not a bad idea by any means.
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...
:), sort of.
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