Poor Steve is dead, poor Steve Jobs is dead...

5 Jul 2012

...
   The whole
thing seemed a bit clunky and slow and not very useful to
 me.  I think they did coin the acronym PDA... and it did lead on to
 bigger and better things.  (like the Ipad).
 I wouldn't say no to one if someone gave me one for my collection. (;  
 Why was the Palm Pilot more successful than the newton? 
Others have pointed out the ease of syncing, but writing apps for the
PalmOS was much more straightforward than the Newton. ARM was a less
familiar architecture those days, NewtonOS was a bit esoteric in some
respects, and above all else the Palm Pilot *was smaller* so more people
were likely to have it with them.

PalmOS was a lot like MacOS, had the familiar 68K processor backing it,
and didn't try to do "too much." As is usual, worse is better.

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Poor Steve is dead, poor Steve Jobs is dead...