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The H/PC market was, in my opinion, doomed in part by refusals of manufacturers to innovate hardware, in particular the displays. At the end makers were shipping devices with 400mhz processors and built in wifi and Bluetooth but they still featured the same dogshit 640x240 DSTN screens.

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The first Windows Mobile phones (the XDA etc) were doomed from the start as they didn't haave hardware acceleration, so the screen redraw was dogshit.I loved the idea, but the execution was appalling.

I think the price of devices worked hard against it. A lot of CE fans would only ever have 2nd-hand CE hardware - because they couldn't afford used car prices for the new stuff.

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