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> I just found that logmein actually offer a personal product again, named GoToMyPC I 'member this being advertized on TechTV back in The Day. It's interesting

by Lammy 2y ago

> I just found that logmein actually offer a personal product again, named GoToMyPC I 'member this being advertized on TechTV back in The Day. It's interesting to see the focus on PDAs now that the product category is entirely dead: https://web.archive.org/web/20031209031959/http://www.techtv.com/advertorial/story/0,23350,3467324,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20031209031959/http://www.techtv... …but didn't realize it's quite as old as it is (1998) and had never heard of “ExpertCity”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoToMyPC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoToMyPC

jacobgkau 2y ago
> It's interesting to see the focus on PDAs now that the product category is entirely dead: In the context of screen sharing, I guess smartphones are the evolution of what they meant by "Pocket PC". Sure, the mobile remote desktop use-case is a little niche, but the product class isn't dead, it was just reinvented.
- Lammy 2y ago
  I see them as fundamentally different because PDAs mostly didn't have network connectivity at all, while modern phones are connectivity-first and gained functionality from there. It was novel to have a PDA with a modem that did anything, much less provide connectivity back to one's home computer.
  - jacobgkau 2y ago
    That's a fundamental difference in their history, but not in what they turned into. Especially, again, in the context of screen sharing-- a PDA would've needed to have networking in order to run GoToMyPC. It's "device in your pocket that lets you control a bigger computer with remote desktop" either way.