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...route to Joshua Tree National Park, we visited a different type of generational enclave: Palm Springs, a remarkably well-landscaped desert entirely populated by tan elderly individuals ready to play golf at a moment's notice. Our "economy" rental car and solid-colored clothing was painfully out of place in this burg, so humming U2 (no tape-deck in "economy" rentals) we hurried on our way. Joshua Tree, not surprisingly, was filled with Joshua trees, but it offered little in the way of generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park...
Dubinsky, meanwhile, finally found an angel. U.S. Robotics, the leading modem seller, based in Skokie, Ill., was looking to extend its brand. "They weren't in Silicon Valley, so they didn't know the conventional wisdom that these things were dogs," she says. In September 1995, the Midwesterners bought Palm Computing...
...debuted. Dubinsky and her colleagues watched anxiously to see how the gadget freaks would react. Word of mouth was critical. "If they vote thumbs down, it's over," she said. For the first four months, the sales reports were "flat, flat, flat, flat." Then, magically, they took off; the Palm was a hit. Hollywood moguls started using it. Pilots began showing up on television (Murphy Brown) and in the movies (recent sighting: Wag the Dog). Within 18 months, more than a million were shipped, a faster launch than the first cellular phones and pagers enjoyed...
...Pilot's success. With few exceptions, like the Sharp SE- 500 and Texas Instruments' well-designed Avigo, the competing devices still tried to do too much. Those that tried to do it with Microsoft's first, hastily cobbled together version of Windows CE 1.0 posed little threat to the Palm. Their keyboards were tiny, and entering data was a hassle. WinCE 1.0 was clearly not ready for prime time...
...Back at Palm, officials heaved a sigh of relief. When the first WinCE devices came out, Dubinsky recalls, "we said, 'Uh-oh, it's all over for us now.'" But consumers weren't as interested in what came to be known as "tweeners"--computers that are neither full-featured laptops nor true handheld pocket devices. "They were sort of in never-never land," she says. By the end of 1997, Palm had grabbed two-thirds of the market for handheld devices, and those running on WinCE 1.0 were far behind...