Originally Posted by
SilverandSore
Palm came 9 years after the Apple Newton, Apple's first handheld OS. Where does that leave me now? Look, I'm not an Apple fanboy but you gotta give them credit where credit is due, the iPhone has been a major paradigm shift. Competition is good, better for the end user, I'm glad Google is giving Apple a run for its money, it's just making them produce better stuff. You missed the mark making this an OS battle. iPubs does something your standard OS doesn't do. That's all. Not saying it's better.
I owned one of these in 1993 before the Newton Launched.
I actually still have it in the basement. The Tandy Zoomer was Marketed by Tandy (Radio Shack), made by Casio, and ran on Palm computing software. Didn't do to well but palm was able to make it through the next few years by marketing their synchronization software for Hp devices, and the Graffiti handwriting reconition software for the Apple Newton MessagePad.
Palm was acquired by US Robotics in 1995. At that point Palm was able to launch many sucessful devices.