Handwriting recognition was an extremely difficult issue -- hence the Palm alphabet. Putting off the tablet meant not grappling with recognition. #apple
But in the six years since 2003, it's no longer only rich guys that have plenty of other PCs and devices. Look around a college campus and you'll see 40% of the kids carrying Blackberries or iPhones; every subway car has at least one person reading a Kindle. Now that you can pick up a perfectly functional laptop for $500, a computer isn't a $2,000 uses-up-my-tech-budget-for-five-years type of purchase any more. #apple
@Astigmatism: It still astounds me when I pick up my sister from school and see a kid whip out his iPhone... then, only a minute later, whip out his blackberry. Now, is this for good measure, or is it just ridiculous? Or am I becoming an old fart at the ripe age of 25? #apple
@Conchie Birdie: No idea why a kid in school would have both, that just sounds dumb. I have both b/c my job requires me to have a Blackberry and won't allow me to get work email on my iPhone. #apple
@norbizness: They seemed to garner a hardcore fanbase among the few people who liked them. An apparently there's a link between them and evernnote: [www.businessweek.com]#apple
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