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"And the biggest complaint of all is, of course: it’s too slow." I really don't think that app being slow is the "biggest problem". App being pointless is a mu
by bsaul 11y ago
"And the biggest complaint of all is, of course: it’s too slow."
I really don't think that app being slow is the "biggest problem". App being pointless is a much greater issue, and it's not a problem of being slow. An apple watch is about the same speed as an iphone1, and yet the iphone was an instant success.
What's even more problematic is that even apple can't imagine useful user scenarios in its ads beyond sport session ( guy checking messages while playing the piano in a concert ? I know it's a joke, but it would have been better to come with a real example...). PDA had problems because they weren't able to properly deliver the promises everyone thought about for those devices. Smartwatch don't even have user expecting anything.
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- aidenn0 11y agoMy handspring visor delivered a better experience for PDA things than my phone right now. My Palm T5 was better yet (great battery life, played videos, excellent calendaring, and they both were insanely responsive compared to my phone. I used an old Centro when my android phone was bricked, and while the web browser was worse than crap, many other things were surprisingly refreshing, plus it sipped battery (3 year old battery, ran for about 70 hours on a charge). I wonder if some of it is that we've hit a level of complexity at which efficient implementations are not as feasible; try counting the number of levels of abstraction in the android OS; there's a lot. Having even 10% of the features and flash that android has, along with a semi-secure sandbox for applications written the way PalmOS was isn't feasible; even Garnet was showing places where the complexity was causing implementation issues.