Gerry
Re Dick Tracy watches etc: in Japan you can buy a watch TV/PDA/phone whose earpiece is your index finger and whose speaker is on the watch strap. It works by vibrating your index metacarpal and phalanges. Technically, seems OK- try placing your index finger in your ear and talking to your watch strap. Will it catch on? Dunno- certainly I won't be walking around with a finger in my ear talking. I prefer my Nokia 8210e.
Which I suppose it what it comes down to. Markets are different. In the market I look at, PDAs are increasingly acceptable. There is evidence that when office workers are given access to email and web via PDA, their use of PCs falls hugely. QED.
In your market, maybe PCs are more acceptable and PDA's are less useful. It doesn't really matter as long as we are both considering options and not becoming so used to the status quo that we consider nothing else.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
