Re:Why Google Glass Broke
by marincounty on Thursday February 05, 2015 @05:44AM
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I thought the Palm was a great little PDA. I had a Palm Tx tethered to a (yellow cased-forgot brand) GPS. The setup relly worked well for me. I remember being at a Goodguy's
closing sale at 9 p.m., and debating on buying 300 units of
Halo 2 for $5 each. Drove to library, got a signal, found a price and happily went back and bought the games. At the time, I couldn't figure out why more people didn't carry around a wifi PDA? I wasen't a tech guy back at that time.
I guess it's all in the marketing? It's funny--at that time--I felt for the first time I had a tool I could use to
hedge the competition. Jump to a few years later, everyone
is on the same playing field.
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Yeah, the Palm Pilot was a reasonably successful device for its time. At a prior employer, in addition to lots of the engineers having one, not a few sales reps and marketing types (including myself) did as well. The syncing was admittedly a bit of a pain (my model was pre-WiFi) but I wouldn't put Palm Pilots in the same class as Newton or Google Glass. By today's standard it looks pretty limited but it was relatively widespread consumer tech at one point--though nothing like Smartphones of course.