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Death of the PDA?

Posted by michael on from the not-likely dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Economist has an article proclaiming the death of the PDA. Smart phone sales are predicted to overtake PDA sales this year."

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  1. especially... by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 5, Funny

    especially the PDAs running *BSD. they are *really* dead

  2. Re:Yeah, so? by uptownguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gotta love Slashdot's incendiary headlines. "DEATH" of the PDA, indeed. But then again, headlines like these have been around as long as Slashdot has. Longer, even. Why, the following is a classic from Slashdot's vaults circa October 1993...

    Death of the Calculator?
    "The calculator market will never be a mass market," says Cindy Brady, an analyst at Echo Blue, a market research firm. Almost everyone who now wants a calculator, she says, now has one.

    In contrast, sales of "computers", high powered computing devices capable of doing things most calculators can do, are rising fast. While some industry leaders, such as Texas Instruments, believe they are positioned to eke out a niche market, others are proclaiming the death of the calculator...

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    I would have to say that explosives are the most abused technology in all of history.
  3. The PDA is dead? Says who? by Zakabog · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The PDA is dead," says David Levin, the boss of Symbian, the leading maker of smartphone software.

    In other news, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came out and announced that Linux is dead.

  4. Re:"The PDA is dead" says... by IGnatius+T+Foobar · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is more like Linus Torvalds or Steve Jobs declaring Microsoft dead. Why is this newsworthy?

    Hey, why shouldn't Linus Torvalds and Steve Jobs declare Microsoft dead? Scott McNealy and Larry Ellison do it all the time!

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