At 12:59 PM 4/14/99 -0700, Bob Ebert wrote:
>At 12:06 PM -0700 4/14/99, Jason Dawes wrote:
>>Would you like to bet as to when vertical will pass the horizontal?
>
>Sure.... except that my bet is 'never' so I can't actually win, I can only
>lose. Given that, I don't think it would be wise to bet any money. But
>if you want to set and end date for our wager, I'd be interested. :)
>
>>Are you including sales of the SPT-1500/1700 in your figures?
>
>I'm not sure exactly how the figures are broken out, and that data is
>probably confidential anyway. I think it's safe to say that the majority
>of the total units sold to date are horizontal, but I'm not sure how the
>current sales rates relate.
Ok, given that we may never know; I'd estimate that "vertical" sales of
"Connected Organizer" devices exceeds "horizontal" sales by July 1, 2001.
>Huh? It _was_ up to Palm!
No, it wasn't. Palm didn't have to do any work, they just had to agree to
let someone else do the work. I meant that if no one else had been willing
to develop the unit, Palm wouldn't have either.
>Anyway, about batteries: battery life really is a very important feature,
>at least horizontally, and tradeoffs have to be carefully considered.
>That's not to say that we won't ever trade battery life for something else
>-- new devices have backlights, for example -- just that it's not a
>no-brainer.
Can you name a single thing Palm has done since version 1 that modified
battery life substantially? i.e., they have never added anything that has
a substantial drain, even if it would have been useful.
>>P.S. The SPT-1700 has some really cool features ... one of which is
>>rechargable batteries...that (shock, horror) recharge in the cradle.
>
>So does the Palm V. What's your point?
>
No point, unless it's that current cradles drain batteries.
