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I don't think this distinction makes any sense nowadays. A "smartphone without cellular connectivity" is a lot more than a "Personal Digital Assistant". Could a
by rglullis 4y ago
I don't think this distinction makes any sense nowadays. A "smartphone without cellular connectivity" is a lot more than a "Personal Digital Assistant". Could a Palm Pilot stream music? Did it have an app store? GPS? Microphone? Could it make VoIP calls? Could it connect with an external modem so that it could work as a softphone?
- yellowapple 4y agoIf Palm were to create the Pilot in 2023, it would almost certainly be designed to support all those features, yes.
- rglullis 4y agoYes, and it wouldn't be marketed as a PDA.
- yellowapple 4y agoThen what would it be marketed as? It's personal, it's digital, and it's an assistant; those things don't go away from adding more features.
- rglullis 4y agoA tablet is personal It's digital. It's an assistant. But no one calls them "PDAs"