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In 1998 non-PC or post-PC devices was "a next big thing". I worked on a startup building corporate portal server software for non-PC devices like voice and WAP-
by nivertech 14y ago
In 1998 non-PC or post-PC devices was "a next big thing".
I worked on a startup building corporate portal server software for non-PC devices like voice and WAP-enabled "smart"-phones.
Wrong timing.
Apple didn't hit it first time with Newton, but second time with iPhone and iPad was a big hit.
- rbanffy 14y agoWe started to see it more clearly with the first smartphones - much like the modem quickly became the most useful peripheral for my Apple II, even the slowest connection to a data network made PDAs much more useful and allowed them to become stand-alone, even if minimalistic, devices rather than what Microsoft then called "PC companions".