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Posted on 09-27-2007 at 02:12pm
No MacPDA
Filed Under (Technology) by Katherine Coble on 09-27-2007

Jackson is sure that Apple won’t release a PDA. I’ll let him tell you why.

There is just no market for that device. People may say that Apple can create a market for this device like they did for the iPhone. The difference is that the iPhone took two devices people loved (iPod and phone) and made them better by combining them without sacrificing the quality of either. This is a device that no one wants because it is not as good as the two devices they already have (phone and computer).

So what do you think? Will Apple release a PDA for completeness’ sake, or does Jackson have it right? He is usually right about this sort of thing.

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Comments

Casey Fleser on 27 September, 2007 at 2:43 pm #

Jackson is also operating under the assumption that Apple is thinking clearly and I’m not sure they are lately.


Phil Wilson on 27 September, 2007 at 2:44 pm #

Apple did. It’s the iPhone. Just because it has a phone’s functionality doesn’t negate the PDA functionality, especially as more people are developing 3rd party applications.


Jeffraham Prestonian on 27 September, 2007 at 2:56 pm #

Even though I care very little, and haven’t handled an iPhone, I was about to ask: What PDA functions are there that an iPhone doesn’t (or can’t) do?
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Pink Kitty on 27 September, 2007 at 3:04 pm #

Uh… yeah. Maybe I’m confused and it has been a long time since I used a PDA (I had a Palm Pilot way back when) but…. my iPhone does everything the old Palm did and more.

w00t!


dolphin on 27 September, 2007 at 3:17 pm #

yeah, I was thinking, “Apple has a PDA, they call it the iPhone.”


Jackson on 27 September, 2007 at 3:32 pm #

they are not talking about the iPhone. Here is the rumor I was talking about (from Apple Insider):

“Like iPhone and the iPod touch, the new device runs an embedded version of Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard operating system.

Externally, the multi-touch PDA has been described by sources as an ultra-thin “slate” akin to the iPhone, about 1.5 times the size and sporting an approximate 720×480 high-resolution display that comprises almost the entire surface of the unit. The device is further believed to leverage multi-touch concepts which have yet to gain widespread adoption in Apple’s existing multi-touch products — the iPhone and iPod touch — like drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste.”