Re: RE: JohnFen
The lack of apps was the major issue, but not the only one.
In addition to that, I would say that likeability/usability was indeed a big problem -- these devices were not exactly received well by the general public (what reviewers think means nothing), and that boiled down to the OS not really being up to snuff. Yes, there were a number of people who loved these things, but that number was not large enough to support the product line. It wasn't even large enough to entice developers to write apps for it -- which brings up another problem with them, that developing apps was a significant enough pain in the butt that there needed to be a very strong economic incentive to do it, and that incentive was simply not there.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
