by Frank McPherson, author of How To Do Everything With Windows Mobile

 
Todd Ogasawara has written an interesting article about the iPod Touch's place in the mobile computing category of devices. I think he appropriately summarizes the many shifts that seem to have gone on within the mobile market over the years. My one comment to what Todd has written is that I think the shifts back and forth, say the view on physical keyboards on mobile devices, may be due to improvements in the designs. For example, it's not that people didn't like the idea of a physical keyboard in the Handheld PC days, but rather that the size of the keyboard made the device larger than people wanted for carrying around. Apparently the thumb keyboard on the Blackberrys became good enough.

The point, I think, is that the original ideas may not be bad, just poorly implemented.

Labels: 2008

posted by Frank at 9:16 AM

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