PDAs aren’t ready for mission critical application

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Author: JT Smith

ZDNET: “Halfway through Monday, however, things went awry. While attending a press conference on
why Compaq and Intel feel the desktop isn’t dead, I took copious notes with my miniature setup.
There was a certain amount of irony in the whole situation. Here were two computer companies
telling me why the desktop wasn’t dead, and there I was, in real time, eliminating the desktop as a
tool of my trade. Even funnier, it was with the iPaq, which is manufactured by Compaq!”