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I wonder what PDA you are referring to. 15 years ago would be the heyday of the Palm and there, lots of software was free or even open source. I certainly didn
by bhaak 9y ago
I wonder what PDA you are referring to.
15 years ago would be the heyday of the Palm and there, lots of software was free or even open source. I certainly didn't need to buy any software back then to fill that little productivity machine.
BTW, I was much more productive on the Palm than on modern smartphone devices. For example note-taking was much better with a stylus than with a touch interface.
- laumars 9y agoThis was a proper PDA rather than a smart phone (I refuse to accept what Apple "invented" smart phones). So a large screened Windows CE device with a stylus. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places but there didn't seem to be much free stuff for Win CE back in 2002.
- bhaak 9y agoWinCE devices were much more business oriented than Palm, probably because they had in the beginning a much smaller market share. So your experience was likely representative for this platform. I completely forgot that they were around at that time.
- laumars 9y agoI didn't get the impression it was more business oriented than Palm. I mean CE certainly had productivity tools like a cut down version of Office and support for Active sync (which I hated). I think the real problem was Windows PDAs of that era didn't even share a common CPU so you'd have multiple versions of software targeting different chipsets. I'm pretty sure that would have put a lot of developers off. But there were a few gems on the platform, like Tomb Raider (which actually played really well). I might had a dig around and see if I've still got it. Might be a fun device to repurpose.
- learc83 9y agoThe Note 8 has a pretty nice stylus. Better than any stylus I ever had on a Windows CE device (never owned anything from Palm, so I can't really comment on that).