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A comment on U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by teraflop on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:55PM (#17324408)
The comments summarized in that article seem to no longer be available, but I have a hard time believing the summary is accurate. When the iPhone was released, there were already PDAs on the market with screens the same size or bigger.
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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by URSpider94 on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:37PM (#17324693)
The devices at the time with larger screens were larger, heavier devices that had shorter battery life. Nobody made a pocketable device with a screen that size.
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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by megablast on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:34AM (#17326732)
I had an iPaq at the time, had maybe 4 hours battery life, and that was with wifi used sparingly. No 2g or 3g was possible. Slow processor. Crappy screen.
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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by ceejayoz on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:21PM (#17324902)
PDAs that could run a processor powerful enough for actual desktop-quality Webkit, a cellular radio, etc.?
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