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Originally Posted by Neil Enns
Heck, people even still *call* the devices Palm Pilots. But now Palm devices run Windows Mobile software, WM has much (much) larger marketshare worldwide, etc.
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And yet people still call them Palm Pilots. Why? 'Cause Palm (3COM, USR) got there first and advertised the heck out of it. Thus people who use a PPC still call it a Palm Pilot. It's even worse with the WM Treo out now. Now it's a PocketPC
and a Palm. Microsoft blanketed a whole train station with WM ads and still people look at me funny when I say 'PocketPC'. People these days know 3 gadgets: The iPod, The Cell Phone, The Palm Pilot. Anything that was invented [read:advertised] later is automatically given the label of the very thing it was meant to compete with. People go to CompUSA to buy a Palm, not a PocketPC.
For example, it's been decades and people still say 'Coke' when they really mean 'Pepsi' or 'soda'. "What kind of Coke?" "The grape kind". :wink: