Smartphones - the mobile management headache
When the devices we now call ‘smartphones’ started to appear in the late 1990s, they seemed to be deliberately positioned as distant from the PDAs (personal digital assistants) that were prevalent at the time. Many people viewed PDAs as a bit ‘geeky’ and expected those who carried them to be bearded sandal-wearers from California. In fact, given the birthplaces of early devices such as the eclectic Apple Newton and more successful Palm Pilot, this was not completely unrealistic. However, PDAs did evolve into useful business tools, often as digital diaries but still labelled as ‘companion devices’ and synchronised to ‘real computers’.
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