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I long for the day when our current mobile OSes work half as well as Palm/Treo devices did in the 90s and early 2000s... Quite seriously, neither iOS nor Andro

by dublin 5y ago

I long for the day when our current mobile OSes work half as well as Palm/Treo devices did in the 90s and early 2000s... Quite seriously, neither iOS nor Android are even remotely as good at easy, right now interaction and usefulness as Palm was nearly 30 years ago. That is especially true for contact management/phone apps!

officeplant 5y ago
I'm just glad my device doesn't factory reset when I forget to plop it on the charging dock after class. Although my Zire 21 did a good job of making me a backup junkie so I could recover easily from those charging accidents.
ubermonkey 5y ago
>Quite seriously, neither iOS nor Android are even remotely as good at easy, right now interaction and usefulness as Palm was nearly 30 years ago. That is especially true for contact management/phone apps! I guess I wonder what you think is missing or worse than Palm? I don't have any experience with Android, but on iOS I don't miss ANYTHING -- I find the always-on OTA sync ALONE to be an enormous advantage. The device is fast, responsive, and just-works in a way that nothing did 20 years ago. Palm desktop sync was good for 1999, but it still had issues that came up (esp if you depended on Outlook) that I have never seen with iOS OTA sync.