Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
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Bye-bye, Springboard...

...it's been nice knowin' ya

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-930011.html

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
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does this mean that mine are collectors items?

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Nebraska- the Good life
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I wonder, however... without the Springboard, what would have happened to the development of expansion? The Springboard enabled Handspring users to do MP3, photography, and GPS long before the other PDAs started into the field.

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Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Didn't Palm have the Kodak camera before the Visor? It didn't take off either...

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Originally posted by Madkins007
I wonder, however... without the Springboard, what would have happened to the development of expansion? The Springboard enabled Handspring users to do MP3, photography, and GPS long before the other PDAs started into the field.

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Photography and GPS were both available for the Palm long before the first Springboards came along. Handspring (and partners) was just supposedly going to make Springboards smaller and more integrated than the Palm equivalents. In general, they succeeded in these goals, but failed to follow through on their long-term commitment to the technology. Now we have a community of disgruntled, poor ( ) and disillusioned former follows of "the vision."

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Re: Bye-bye, Springboard...

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Originally posted by MarkEagle
...it's been nice knowin' ya

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103-930011.html

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Registered: May 2002
Location: Mt. Laurel, NJ
Posts: 10

So Long Springboard

I saw this article and at first I was surprised, but as someone who wants it to be not true, I kinda saw this coming. (though as previously mentioned, no 'official' word, yet.....)

As an early adopter of the Visor Deluxe (December 1999, well ordered in October 1999 and you all remember that fiasco ) )
I was very excited about the Springboard and the expansion possibilities, in fact it was the main reason I got it! (along with the 8mb of memory) But, as I waited... and waited.... for a Springboard module that was deemed worthwhile (and not so expensive), all I got were promises and possibilities.

I know.. I know.... alot of you might be thinking, hey... I have 'x' springboard and it's great. There are some great ones out there, but a 'funny thing happened on the way' to waiting for the Springboards. I found that what I really liked about my Visor is the Datebook, Addressbook and Memopad, and the more I used those features, the more my life got less complicated.

I will miss the 'option' of getting a PDA with expansion possibilities, but I've already decided my next PDA is the Treo 270 and the main reason I decided to get it is that I don't even own a Springboard module and what am I really going to miss? ('You never miss, what you never had')

Oh well.. sorry for the rant.. just my .02

PS... still waiting for the Six Pack module

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: Philadelphia
Posts: 242

I confess I find the abandonment of Springboard so quickly absolutely amazing. What about all that Handspring PR about it being the be-all of the universe?

I expected it to fade eventually. When PCs were young, a lot of people would store data on floppies and it was considered a big advantage to have programs that could be installed to and run off floppies. The obvious problem: constant flipping of disks. But hard drives were so small power users were constricted.

Then, hard drives got big and cheap. All sorts of technologies, from Quantum Hard drives to balky compression programs, went bye-bye.

But that's not the case yet with Visor memory--it's still pretty puny.

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