Re: Why is Palm telling people to stop buying their product?
- From: bg12345@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 9 Jan 2006 09:46:40 -0800
AaronJ wrote:
> bg12345@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >I once read a book on jogging and the author said, "If you find
> >a pair of shoes that are really comfortable, buy ten pairs in
> >case they go off the market."
>
> Unlike shoes PDAs are still improving. I did actually did buy an extra Palm
> IIIxe about 5 years back with that purpose in mind. However now I would hate to
> have to use it. Lousy no color screen, no SD card, no music, no radio, serial
> port only, ect. It would be a real pain to have to use it today just to be able
> to keep using it on my old Win98 computer (which itself is slow and painful to
> use by today's standards).
Slow? Win98 works fine for me on my 1.4GHz laptop. I can do
everything I want to do, and that's what matters. It may not
be good for you or others, but I'm the one using my PC.
Hell, I only switched from Win95 this past summer and would have
stayed with Win3.1 if I could still do what I want; I switched
both times only because I hit a functionality wall.
> >I'm giving the idea some thought myself, of buying two or three
> >of the most useful and last Win98 compatible Palms.
>
> Judging from what I'm reading about the new emerging screen technology, tokay's
> PDAs will be just as obsolete 5 years from now.
Wifi, USB, 1.3 megapixel cameras will be gone? They will be
low-end, but not gone, and will still be usable.
Personally, I think MP3 will be with us for a decade, like VHS:
it's compact, it's ubiquitous, and it works. Any MP3 player will
be worthwhile for years. Hell, DOS hasn't gone away - IBM
released a new version just over a year ago, and there are about
five (six?) DOS versions still in active development. (Did you
know there's a USB driver for DOS?)
> >Who knows, maybe somebody will pay good money for one in the box five years
> >from now.
>
> Yep, my 5 year old $150 IIIxe is now going for around $50 new, $20 used. I'm
> not sure who's buying them, I sure wouldn't... ;)
Don't be too sure; people will pay for nostalgia. I'd love to
get a Poqet or Atari Portfolio, even though they'd be of little
use now. Or maybe one of these beauties: http://club100.org/
Bob Dog
.
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