‘WSJ: The iPhone may become Obsolete like the Walkman and the Polaroid Camera

Filed in the duh category … don’t all products become obsolete? Isn’t it really only … when … and on that I think WSJ might have made their predictions a little too early.

@JohnPhilpin This would have been a better article if you replace “iPhone“ with “smartphone”.

@gio wonder when a watch is going to be described as a smart phone?

@JohnPhilpin Having made calls from my watch while paddling my Kayak. I’d say you could make the case. Text input is still problematic. Composing anything longer than a txt message is really impractical. But they used to say that about phones.

@JohnPhilpin @gio we need an entirely new name for such devices.

@pratik well given that a smart phone is rarely used as 'a phone’ - I think you might be right.

@gio have you tried dictating the messages to the watch? i find it understands me better than my phone.

@pratik @gio

... got it ... a PC (Pocket Computer)

@JohnPhilpin I had a Tandy PC 1 (Pocket Computer) in high school. It only had a 40 character single line display but it did have a full keyboard.

@JohnPhilpin Better trademark it right away. Except someone else probably already did.

@gio well yes there is that. I’m one of those people that leaves restaurants to stand in the street to have a phone call / so dictating texts in public is not a natural for me either.

@gio lovely ... I had a psion ... tho I was outta school by then ..