@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.
@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.
@arstechnica One addition to the epilogue - Palm was zombified under TCL, but webOS was split off and bought by LG and it's the OS that runs their smart TVs.
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