The Palm pilot became the most successful PDA (personal digitial assistant), a computer that would fit in your pocket and sync all your data, so you could access email, calendar, contacts etc on the move. With app you could install, and access to the internet you could be forgiven for thinking of it as a smart phone, but with the phone bits missing.
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00:00 – Intro
00:25 – A word from our sponsors
00:54 – Palm in the beginning
06:42 – Hot Sync
17:00 – The hardware
23:55 – Developing software for the Palm
34:39 – The PDA market
37:39 – What happened to palm
44:22 – Thanks
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