At 3:57 PM -0700 2/26/01, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> what i do care about is the fact that ASCII memos can't be
reformatted. that
is just plain silly.
Marshall, do you think tiny PDA displays will be with us for a
substantial amount of time? It seems to me that, with the rate
display technology moves forward at, by the time we all finish
arguing over this the current crop of postage-stamp size PDA
displays will be ancient history.
There's more to this than just ID's/RFCs. Pretty damned near
everything has to be reformatted to fit on those itty-bitty screens,
and that just isn't going to happen. Consumers will demand (and
get) readable displays. I really think we're better of fixing this
problem in hardware.
--lyndon
Are your pockets getting any bigger, I don't see anyone carrying a
laptop holster on their belts?
The reason that PDA screens are small are because PDAs are small.
Apple Newton (which I still own) had a larger screen but it wasn't as
convenient as a Palm to carry around.
I have read reasonable size text docs on both and it is really not that bad.
Bora