08-19-2011, 02:50 PM
RAMd®d wrote:
I mourn more for the death of Palm.
Agreed.
My first Palm was a V, then a Tungsten T3.
I wanted a Vx but missed that boat. What a great little device. What great devices for their time.
I hate to see anybody go under, especially in this economy. While Apple will probably be the manufacturer that makes the tech gear I want, competition is good, and not everybody needs what Apple builds.
It's amazing that the iPhone and iPad (and to a lesser degree, the 'Pod) have defined the Standard for so many, and that it's as though nobody wants a "tablet" but everybody (yeah, I know) wants an iPad.
Still, Palm was there when the Newton wasn't.
I started with a Palm Pro, and that must have been before 1999. Those palms, with the "app store" called palmgear was on par with my ipad today, and my uses are remarkedly similar. If only Palm had been smart enough to develop a larger screen tablet with a web browser/interface with a dataplan option that actually worked (my Tx choked regularly on the internet and was never a reliable browser).