What Was In Your Pocket In 1997?
And no, I don’t mean Were you holding?
Jason Langridge AKA Mr. Mobility mentions peeving off a customer recently who wanted a 10 year roadmap regardiing Mobility.
Think about where mobile devices themselves were at, all the way back in 1997…
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Palm…ruled the roost. No argument about that cold, hard fact.
Windows CE 2…was the release WinCE 1 should have been.
Blackberry…was still 2 years from addicting & then destroying the thumbs of lawyers, judges, marketing execs, and everyone in-between.
Apple…was still reeling from the stunning market failure of the Newton 4 years earlier. It was also 2 years into getting its ass handed to it by Microsoft and their supa-killah, Windows 95. In other news…Jobs came back, and the phoenix-like rise from their own ashes commenced a few months later.
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My how times have changed, haven’t they?
This is exactly the kinda stuff we’re going to talk about at the next IPSA meeting, which I had to give the funktastic title…
Mobile 2.0 and The Amazing Technicolor Dream You
So be there, or be square…
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