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Originally Posted by latepaul
I don't think they'll go away until there's something that does what they do as well if not better for most of that niche.
I remember in the era of Palm Pilots and other PDAs - which lest we forget were massively popular - that there were some early attempts to combine a phone with a PDA. They were awful and the reviews usually pointed out that you better off sticking with single use devices. A phone that's just a phone will be a better phone than one that's also trying to be a digital organiser. And I think that was true until it wasn't.
At some point someone figured out how to combine these functions, and others, well - and we got smartphones. I think it was partly design and partly that the technology had to catch up - touch screens and faster mobile CPUs. Once they were good enough a watershed was reached and the market for PDAs went from being massive to niche.
And I think this could happen with screen technologies.
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Is anybody still selling PDAs?
I thought they didn't just go niche but extinct.
Digital music players are niche but the very high end models and the very low end survive.
Cameras also survive just fine.
Just because multipurpose devices can do a job doesn't automatically preclude single function devices from enduring.