chadbang
Headphoneus Supremus
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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-06-01-pda_x.htm
I guess the thread title says it all. I guess I shouldn't say "I told you so", but I've been saying this about PDAs all along -- that they're pretty much "gadgets" without a real strength (unlike cell telephones, which are surplanting the PDA as they add PDA-like features). I mean, like everyone else, when I first saw them I said, "Whoa, cool". But my next thought was a mumbled "useless". I couldn't help but feel a deja vu about all those nifty "electronic organizers" for your addresses and phone numbers that everyone sold during the 80s and 90s, and then finally dropped down to about $2 apeice of the street. To me, PDAs are pretty much tarted up versions of those. Maybe I'm not enough of a young professional that I need a contacts database and appointment scheduling (thank god). Of course, when they get souped up even more with high quality communications onboard, they'll be back...maybe. I just have a feeling smaller laptops will send PDAs to the gadget graveyard in the back of your desk drawer.
One of these days I'm gonna get myself organizized...
But not very soon.
I guess the thread title says it all. I guess I shouldn't say "I told you so", but I've been saying this about PDAs all along -- that they're pretty much "gadgets" without a real strength (unlike cell telephones, which are surplanting the PDA as they add PDA-like features). I mean, like everyone else, when I first saw them I said, "Whoa, cool". But my next thought was a mumbled "useless". I couldn't help but feel a deja vu about all those nifty "electronic organizers" for your addresses and phone numbers that everyone sold during the 80s and 90s, and then finally dropped down to about $2 apeice of the street. To me, PDAs are pretty much tarted up versions of those. Maybe I'm not enough of a young professional that I need a contacts database and appointment scheduling (thank god). Of course, when they get souped up even more with high quality communications onboard, they'll be back...maybe. I just have a feeling smaller laptops will send PDAs to the gadget graveyard in the back of your desk drawer.
One of these days I'm gonna get myself organizized...
But not very soon.