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Reality check. Having used both Palms and Pocket PC's since the very beginning of each its not nearly as simple as you make it out to be. The battery life and speed of Pocket PC's meant that multimedia is only recently a reality. The Pocket PC interface is still horrible as is memory management. Multitasking is not a significant issue on Palms or on Pocket PCs for most users. Besides that only a tiny fraction of users care about multimedia on a handheld. Many of them are enthisiasts who follow these sites but the average business users these devices are aimed at could care less and thats why the Phone blackberries and Treos are doing so well. If you travel much you see people watching DVD's on their laptops not on their handhelds. I'm not defending Palm but your crowing about Pocket PC is not reality. As with high end Pocket PC's I think the market for a $500 Palm with a 4 GB hard drive is very limited. If I want to listen to large amounts of music I use my 40GB iPod. If I want to watch a movie I stick a DVD in my laptop instead of going through all the machinations required to run it on a tiny handheld screen.
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