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New Palms to hit store shelves soon
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Newton was the real OG, but Palm greatly simplified the concept and hit a lower price point, and was thus more successful. I had a succession of Palm Pilots and Handspring Visors, finally ending up with a Treo 650 before switching to an OG iPhone.
Now I'm remembering the awkwardness of that whole platform change. The Treo was a great, albeit bulky and heavy, PDA, but a mediocre phone. The original iPhone was amazing, but the hoops I had to jump through due to the lack of native third party apps was quite something.
Now I'm remembering the awkwardness of that whole platform change. The Treo was a great, albeit bulky and heavy, PDA, but a mediocre phone. The original iPhone was amazing, but the hoops I had to jump through due to the lack of native third party apps was quite something.
I had the Palm Pilot in 1999. One day I accidentally stepped on my leather soft briefcase and that was it for this device.
Palms biggest problem was they decided instead of pushing vertical integration between PalmOS and Palm hardware, they'd split the company and operate independantly
This resulted in Palm hardware running Windows CE. And it did so quite horrendously. Windows CE was a novel attempt, but it was absolutely horrible in use. (I had a few devices with it)
PalmOS on the other hand was definitely a more touch and mobile focused OS built from the ground up around that premise. But without the guaranteed harware platform of Palm hardware, it became second fiddle to Microsoft's overwhelming industry power.
all the palm hardware running Windows CE simply sucked and they never really worked well together. and without the hardware business helping push PalmOS... it too eventually died.
This resulted in Palm hardware running Windows CE. And it did so quite horrendously. Windows CE was a novel attempt, but it was absolutely horrible in use. (I had a few devices with it)
PalmOS on the other hand was definitely a more touch and mobile focused OS built from the ground up around that premise. But without the guaranteed harware platform of Palm hardware, it became second fiddle to Microsoft's overwhelming industry power.
all the palm hardware running Windows CE simply sucked and they never really worked well together. and without the hardware business helping push PalmOS... it too eventually died.
WinCE was absolute rubbish, and I thought for a while that it would inevitably take over the mobile space due to Microsoft's power and influence. Thank goodness it didn't.
PalmOS was generally great to use, but its underpinnings dated very quickly and it couldn't scale up to multitask at all. By 2006 I was more frustrated than pleased with my Treo 650.
Don't get me started on BlackBerry OS. The push updates were ahead of their time and well implemented, but I can't imagine anyone actually enjoyed using a BlackBerry device.
That's why I still laugh about the "Those PC guys won't just walk in" quote, because the state of the mobile market before the iPhone was actually pretty dire.
PalmOS was generally great to use, but its underpinnings dated very quickly and it couldn't scale up to multitask at all. By 2006 I was more frustrated than pleased with my Treo 650.
Don't get me started on BlackBerry OS. The push updates were ahead of their time and well implemented, but I can't imagine anyone actually enjoyed using a BlackBerry device.
That's why I still laugh about the "Those PC guys won't just walk in" quote, because the state of the mobile market before the iPhone was actually pretty dire.
PalmOS was more than adequate for its time. I had a Centro for a while and didn't have any complaints.
But I will never not be devastated/livid at the story of webOS.
But I will never not be devastated/livid at the story of webOS.
Wow this brought back memories. I was a very early PalmPilot adopter in health care in the mid 90s, even had what I think was the first website devoted to the topic, for a short time of course. The thing was a boon, even with the rudimentary apps then available. I still have it on a shelf in my office. I had a separate cellphone and for a longish time stepped up through Palms thinking that the idea of combining a phone and handheld was silly. Boy was I wrong! My first smartphone was an early iPhone.