cross-posted from: https://mamot.fr/users/thibaultamartin/statuses/113879452911907737
Palms were offline devices that only synced with your computer when put on a docking station.
You could read and reply to emails offline, book or cancel meetings, and sync with your computer later. The latest versions allowed you to snap pictures and listen to your music.
No servers running constantly. No data spilled everywhere. Days worth of battery on a single charge.
The future stole our cables, and it took our attention span and our privacy with it.
#privacy #offline #data
Smartphones are nothing more than gentrified PDAs…
Less any semblance of privacy? We can still have the impression we’ve some control over what it does but for how long?
My last PDA was a Palm Tungsten T5, liked it a lot ;)
I had the tungsten E. Loved it.
Also. Airplane mode on a smartphone and the. BAM. New age palm pilot.
Palm were fine device :)
How many apps fully work offline, at least without regular connection to check ‘your authorization to use the app’? The moment one turns the phone back on, all data that were kept on it are being uploaded.
Literally the first phones labeled “smartphones” were things like the Handspring Treo that ran PalmOS.