Modems and external dialers.

[Stefan Skoglund]

tor 2019-06-06 klockan 13:43 +0200 skrev Liam Proven via cctalk:
> 
> Result of the eventual convergence on the American model:
> 
> We have amazingly sophisticated, high-spec smartphones and tablets,
> but they have a battery life of a single day, replacing European
> phones that lasted a week and PDAs that lasted a month.
> 
> Why, no, I am *not* happy about that.
> 
> The European PDAs had excellent keyboards you could type on. My Psion
> 5MX paid for itself in the first weekend of ownership: on a
> long-distance coach with a fold-down table the size of an iPad, I
> wrote 2 articles, both of which I sold and which paid for the device.
> 
> 

The economist wrote about this (
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2019/06/08/how-the-pursuit-of-leisure-drives-internet-use
)

The current situation is this:
it is much more important for Apple and Samsung to sell overpriced
things to consumers which then basically only will be used to play
games, look on sport games and youtube films.


What you used the Psion for will only sell about 4 percent of apples
volumes last year....
The screen of the machine i write this on, stands on a sun sparcstation
10.
If i had that machine running well i would be as productive writing
reports on that one as on the asus tower which i now uses.