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1/5/2009
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| PDAs were never intended to replace PCs, and Pocket PCs were always
intended to be more than simple PIM tools -- the covergence between
the two functions which we are seeing in its embronic form is due to: |
| jon_dennis@hotmail.com wrote:
+ Havent read any PDAs yet, sorry. Too busy trying to write one. In
summation. BBC 4, Virgin 6. My overall feeling so far is that the midline of
the BBC books is slightly higher but hasnt reached the height of the best
of Virgin and, in its first year, has produced, if not more dross, then a
different kind. The Pit was a failure, but it was a failure because its
reach exceeded its grasp. The Eight Doctors and the two Peel books dared
fairly little and failed anyway. |
| But I think were all missing something here - for me (as an executive
in a large multinational) the single biggest drawback of PDAs is the
inherent risk with using them enmasse within an Enterprise (see:
http://www.gigaweb.com/Content/Adhoc/RAH-072000-00015.html). |
| jon_dennis@hotmail.com wrote:
+ Havent read any PDAs yet, sorry. Too busy trying to write one. In summation.
BBC 4, Virgin 6. My overall feeling so far is that the midline of the BBC books
is slightly higher but hasnt reached the height of the best of Virgin and, in
its first year, has produced, if not more dross, then a different kind. The Pit
was a failure, but it was a failure because its reach exceeded its grasp. The
Eight Doctors and the two Peel books dared fairly little and failed anyway.
Peel in partcular disappointed me. I expected little of his Dalek books and was
still disappointed. The drop in prose quality alone between these and what I
know hes capable of from the two Dalek novelizations he did is an alarming
one. You cant help but feel that he knows hes going to get a commission based
on the fact that the BBC wants Dalek books and so far hes the only one
Nations estate is allowing to write them and that he then dashed the novel out
over a weekend and sends in the first . |
| I knew the PDA line was good, but that good? I looked back at the MAs under
discussion and found a surprising number of bad or mediocre books, but this is
still a spectacular vote of confidence for the PDAs. Wow. |
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