Uber PDA's
Think of this for a min, I work as a computer retail sales man in western canada, in are store location we have computers leaving are department every hour worth 3000$ plus all the toys to go with them!!.
Over the past two years apple has gone from a lonely imac with dust to a full line up of apples from the small iPod to the 23" HD LCD. Apple has the touch if they want want to sell a PDA's i think they can do it, they just have to be careful about it, lets look at some PDA's for a moment and see what apple has to do to make a best seller.
Lets break this down into two groups the big boys and the little brats.
Little Brats: Palm handhelds like Sony Clea,Handspring Visor, and the Palm are all small PDA's great for keeping your address and numbers but lets face it they are too small to do much more then that, try doing a spreadsheet LOL
Big Boys: Windows CE devices like HP Jernoda, Compaq iPac, and Toshiba's new one, these PDA's have much faster CPU's and Larger screens and you can get by with spreadsheet on these PDA's, and listen to MP3's or watch a video.
So what do all these PDA's have in comen...They are all hard to use for the first time ever tried to setup the HOTSYNC on a PDA before, it's a pain, and want to install files and programs, good luck! some of them have cool add on's like GPS and Digital Camera's, And all of them can go wireless with a little TLC.
So what does apple need to make this years hot sellers, and maybe next year too.
Lets list them off
1) Easy to use and setup
2) Big Screen
3) Wireless
4) Excel and Word support
5) MP3
6) Memory Expansion "stock 64mb"
7) Extra Stuff "GPS, Digital Cam, etc.."
8) Address + Numbers
9) Games
10) Notes
11) HandWriting Reconiton!
12) Video Playback
If apple could make a PDA that could use all of this and more they would Take the market.
One of the most important items on the list is #7 people love toys and they will buy them, for and example...
the Sony clea is a hot seller it has great features at a fair price like 8mb of ram and expansion for more with MP3 playback it rocks but there is one major down side, to toys!! you cant even get a case for it yet!
If apple put out a PDA that had a a few expansion units to start it off they could really take the market.
GPS unit: that tells you your exact location on a map and can give you directions to were that broad meeting is at.
Digital camera: not just a 800X800 pixels image but a real digital camera like 4 megpaixels
Video Camera: something to use as a web cam and maybe a little more
Voice recorder: Very useful for forgetful types like me..what was i saying..
and much more..
all we have to do is Think Different!
Thanks for my 2 cents