"He could also rectify the Newton's single biggest shortcoming: the device's inability to communicate easily with the Macintosh desktop computer. Apple has already begun offering Bluetooth local wireless networking technology for peripheral devices, a feature that would make it simple to share information between a phone and a computer."<p>And yet, that's still the biggest thing that really doesn't work well with the iPhone.<p>I mean, seriously. I have to physically plug my phone into my computer to delete a song? Or change it's name? Or reorder an out-of-sequence album? Yet, I can make and edit movies on it.<p>Not to mention the fact that iTunes has a habit of breaking something every time it syncs my phone (album covers disappear, ringtones disappear, apps get reordered (that used to be worse) etc.)
Palm founded in 1992. Apple offers to buy for $1Bn in 2002? Average of $100M per year in business...<p>Palm sells to HP in 2010 for $1.2Bn. 1Bn in first 10 years and only $200M in the 8 years that followed? Wow. Should have sold in 2002!
''We decided that between now and next year, the P.D.A. is going to be subsumed by the telephone,'' he said last week in an interview. ''We think the P.D.A. is going away.''<p>As someone who would love to have a smartphone-that-isn't-a-phone, I'd have to agree. The iPhone killed the PDA. Oh well, I'll always have my iPod Touch.