Why Have PDAs Failed In The iPod Era?

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 21, 2005 @10:52AM from the my-palm-she-is-dead dept.

mikejz84 writes "As the owner of a PocketPC PDA I am a very happy camper, with wifi internet access, Skype Voip, video playback, and of course the ubiquitous mp3 playback. In an era were everyone seems to talk about the Video iPod, and the next generation of mobile devices, it leaves me wondering - I already have all those abilities in a PDA that costs about as much as an iPod. My question for Slashdot: Given that modern PDAs have almost all the functionality of these separate devices, how has Palm and Microsoft/PocketPC developers failed in making PDAs a force in this new era of portable media devices? It is the poor marketing, bad media apps, public perception, or do people simply not want an all-in-one for mobile media?"

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Re:I think you nailed it. by Henk+Poley · 2005-10-22 02:39 · Score: 0, Redundant

Where did I say that only a few have a mobile phone? I am just saying that the development is targeted at the wishes of a small group that likes 'cool'. Lots of other people also use them, but so what?

Try to deny that. :-)