That's the rub. They're from a world that was, in very meaningful ways, "pre-connectivity." Doing meaningful work on a portable presupposes the ability to cont

That's the rub. They're from a world that was, in very meaningful ways, "pre-connectivity." Doing meaningful work on a portable presupposes the ability to continue that work when you're at a better device. We have that NOW, but 20-25 years ago we really didn't. People today talk about how bad handwriting rec was the death of the Newton, but it really wasn't. The HWR was pretty stellar under 2.0, even with my objectively terrible penmanship. What killed it was (a) its price and (b) its lack of connectivity to the desktop. Palm entered the market with a $299 device that was dead cheap, fit in your pocket, and synced with either the Palm Desktop or Outlook. That's what killed the Newton.