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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:04:21 JST Ars Technica

   Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

   Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devices-that-ran-it-an-ars-retrospective/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Marcus Jenkins (marcusjenkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:08:38 JST Marcus Jenkins

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     @arstechnica Meh, IMO Sony did them best. 😏

   • MyNameIsAtticus (mynameisatticus@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:31:06 JST MyNameIsAtticus

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     @arstechnica I used a Palm Treo as a makeshift MP3 player throughout Highschool. I loved that thing

   • 4everpushingaboulder (boulder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 21:03:22 JST 4everpushingaboulder

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     @arstechnica Had a IIIxe, a V and a Treo650. Hated giving it up for a corporate issued BlackBerry.

   • in_sympathy (in_sympathy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 21:56:40 JST in_sympathy

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     @arstechnica meh, Palm was cool and all, but I had an iPAQ H3835 in 2001 - and still do and it still works - with a foldable keyboard. It was purely awesome. I opened this whole construction on my lap on the bus home from Lyceum and wrote some code in PPL - C-based language some fella developed for the Pocket PC back in a day. Strangers on the bus thought that Matrix has got them 🤣, because I was if not the only one - probably one of the very few people with those things here in Kyiv.

   • The Spiral Cow (thespiralcow@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 01:00:10 JST The Spiral Cow

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     @arstechnica This is what we should have instead of smartphones. Data that we load onto a device and use without that horrible tracking technology called mobile internet. A decent "smartphone" would have been just an evolution of PalmOS instead of integrating every single conceivable technology into it including phones and texting and other crap.

     Bring back PalmOS and pay phones and one-way pagers. In other words, privacy.