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by PavlovsCat 3541 days ago
> The promise of early yet clunky smartphone/PDA revolution has also been fulfilled.

Hardly. The "personal" in assistant should relate to the owner of the thing, not to the people pushing it. In that sense there are few enough "personal computers", but 99.999% of all smartphones in use out there are no more personal than the posters a prisoner might put up on their cell wall. Yes, there is none configured exactly as yours, but it's still not yours personally.