03-06-2013, 11:52 PM
silvarios wrote: How do people pushing forward the technology to the masses somehow limit such technology from reaching the masses?
I'm not sure I follow your question here.
silvarios wrote: There was nothing hard about using a Palm phone when compared to the PCs (either WIndows, Mac, or Linux distro) that people were already using on a regular basis.
So says the techie. ;-) Moreover, many people didn't use PC's (like my parents) or were very timid about their use (instead relying on the throngs of geeks/computer specialists at shops or otherwise known to them, to deal issues--which were very common--with or manage their machines). Not an ideal situation.
silvarios wrote: There's nothing wrong with someone expressing themselves in written form, especially in something so well reasoned and carefully considered. A tech writer writing about tech isn't something to be puzzled over, is it?
Never said it was. Just that his reasons/situation appeals more to the techie/highly capable user than the unwashed masses.
silvarios wrote: 100 million Symbian smartphones shipped before the iPhone was even launched. Probably more by the time the iPhone launched, but that's the number given in late 2006. The masses were already buying phones, a lesser amount were smartphones, but even with the lesser amount, smartphones were selling in the tens of millions. If you consider the feature phones or near smartphone category like Sidekicks and S40 Nokias, the numbers are even larger. If you add up the number of higher end feature phones, smartphones, and PDAs, I think you'll find more non iPhone influenced devices out there than you imagined.
No, this is the same impression I have. But for as much people that used them, it was still uncommon to see them. The VAST majority had just regular old cell phones.
silvarios wrote: One of my clients, an older lady who isn't afraid of her computers, but not comfortable enough not to need my occasional assistance, had a PDA for years before the iPhone was announced. My dad, admittedly a guy who likes technology and a programmer later in life, had a smartphone in 2001 or so, Palm powered Kyocera, and then didn't have another smartphone until around 2011, an LG Android. There's a lot going on in this industry pre and post iPhone.
I didn't (and wouldn't) dispute that. But as I mentioned already, for the vast majority it was 'inaccessible' and hence they stayed away.