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by SulphurSmell
1477 days ago
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I still have my MP2000, and it powers up just fine. Although, it could handle year 2000...it seemed to hit the wall from a date range perspective soon after. Anyhow, I was soooo stoked at the time to get one. Back then, there was not a small, useful, handheld device. People that carried them were weirdos. I doubled-down and carried a giant Moto flip-phone too. As fun as the Newton was, it never became my killer device. Why? No one else had one. I could not easily share all that clever stuff I had in my Notes or my Calendar. I firmly believe that if more people had them...you would have seen more adoption. Casio made a few very colourful WinCe devices, too...same fate. And they were huge... may as well carry a real computer...a laptop.
As soon as cell phones got "apps"... calendar especially, then I knew PDA's were dead. When iPhone was launched...well, I knew that it was the smaller, smarter, more connected Newton that was imagined way back then. |
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