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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Windows (yeah, I'm gonna say it) kicked off a software standardization that has stabilized the SW market... now no OS is released that doesn't adhere to the standards of an established OS, whether it's Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, etc, and we're all better off..
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seemed to kick it off but actually there were already millions of Macs out there with a graphical interface. But I agree that Windows made it more popular due to the huge 'clientèle' Microsoft brought to it. Hey I forgive you because you're such a nice guy.
Remember we're a lot of Macheads around!
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
The PDA market has been in flux, I think, because of the "all things to all people" syndrome... nobody can decide once and for all what should and should not be standard issue on a PDA. And now, with cellphones added to the mix, it's even more confusing. This is why I'd prefer separate devices with specific tools on-board, as it would speed up standardization of each device. If a device had to have a specific set of features to be a PDA, say, it would be much easier to standardize the tools, HW and SW accordingly.
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I've never had a PDA, my work doesn't justify I do. I could have had one for the heck of it just like all other toys but what actually killed it for me is what made it for most actual users; size. It's too small, I would have prefered a PDA to be iLiad sized and stylus driven. There is still not much existing in a format between a tablet and a PDA. Computing power wasn't there either. If only UMPCs were just... slimmer!