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...this would have been very persuasive had I not grown so fiercely loyal to the sleek little Palm V that I bought a few months ago to replace a lost and lamented Filofax organizer. To win me over completely--not to mention the millions of Palm enthusiasts who dominate the handheld market--Pocket PC would have to be easier to understand and simpler to operate than a Palm, especially when doing boring workaday stuff like entering lunch dates and addresses and jotting down memos...
First gadget out of the gate is the Pocket PC, set to launch next week and butt heads with the Palm Pilot family of Personal Digital Assistants. Windows-based PDAs have been technically superior for some time, but the Palm outsells them all because of a Filofax-like operating system so simple even executive V.P.s...
...always been suspicious of filofax fanatics. After all, do you really need to schedule an appointment to pick up your dry cleaning? And if you can't remember whom you're having dinner with on Friday night, was the date really worth making in the first place? I like to keep things simple. But not everyone appreciates my footloose approach to life. My roommate gives me the evil eye when I forget to call the cleaning lady, and I just got slapped with a $30 fee for paying my Visa bill a few days late...
Unplanned visits, chance meetings, impromptu drinks--these are just the sort of Filofax-be-damned encounters royal life does not amply provide. On a Friday evening last month, however, at Prince Charles' St. James's Palace apartment, there occurred some rather significant spur-of-the-moment socializing. Just nine days before his 16th birthday, Prince William, en route from boarding school to the movies with friends, called his father to tell him he'd be stopping home for a change of clothes. Prince Charles asked his son if he would not mind spending a few moments with a houseguest...
Hawkins figured his main competition was paper, not computers. So he made sure that looking up the day's schedule was no more difficult than opening a Filofax: one push of a button and there it was. Details about an appointment could be called up with two taps. "The way you look at your day on the Palm is the way you look at your watch," says Dubinsky. "That's the sort of performance we felt we needed...