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Originally Posted by Colin Dunstan
...but it should not take much more work to turn an iPod or other MP3 player into an effective, reliable way to carry around a Mac or PC's address book and calendar. Once either event comes to pass, Palm risks finding itself with even fewer potential buyers to impress.
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I find this rather simplistic.
I have a Zaurus SLC-760. Basically a mini-laptop masquerading as a PDA. I pretty much use it only for a few games and to do some laptop-like stuff without having to carry a laptop.
Why don't I use it as a PDA? Because as a PDA is stinks. The PIM applications for it (built in or 3rd party) assume that you are running on a desktop (and that just doesn't work on the tiny screen), plus they don't have the polished functionality that the Palm PIM apps have.
That's why I still use my Palm (that and the 3rd party support for it).
The idea that someone's going to take the video iPod, plunk some PIM applications on it and kill Palm is a pipe dream.
At some point, we will have a PDA/MP3 player for the masses. But it's more likely to be a Palm with a large hard drive (hmmm... A LifeDrive that actually works nicely, maybe) not an iPod with some PIM apps.