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早在几年前,苹果电脑公司向世人提出了一种极具创新精神的概念——PDA(Personal Digital Assistant,个人数字助理)。在1992年举办的消费电子展览会上,苹果展示了他们命名为 New-ton 的 PDA 产品原型。这是一种具有通信功能的手持轻型电脑,它没有键盘,依靠识别用户在液晶屏上的手写文字作为输入。除了能够进行字处理、电子表格、日历、通讯录的处理外,PDA 还可作为记事簿、日程安排和无线收发数据、传真和电子邮件的工具。它的出现令世人眼界大开。可是,在经历了初期的热销后,人们却逐渐发现了 Newton 的致命缺点——识别手写文字的准确率低,加上它的体积过大、售价高昂,就这样,一种本来很有前途的革命性新技术在市场上滞销了。接下来的两年里,尽管苹果公司和其他PDA 厂商尽全力开发、改善产品,PDA 仍没有得到市场的承认,甚至一度成为评论家口中的笑料。但出乎众人的预料,1996年 U.S.Robotics 公司(现已被3Com 公司收购)的 PDA 产品——Palm Pilot 却成为一匹黑马,风靡了整个 PDA 市场。在两年时间里,Palm Pilot 的销量已超过200万台。当初没有人想到,能够最后统治市场的
As early as a few years ago, Apple Computer put forward a very innovative concept - PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). At the Consumer Electronics Show in 1992, Apple showed off their PDA prototype, named New-ton. This is a hand held light computer with communication capabilities that does not have a keyboard and relies on recognizing the user’s handwritten text on the LCD as input. In addition to being able to handle word processing, spreadsheets, calendars and contacts, the PDA also serves as a memo pad, scheduling and wireless data transceiver, fax and email tool. Its emergence has opened the eyes of the world. However, after experiencing the initial hot sales, people gradually discovered Newton’s fatal flaw - the accuracy of recognizing handwritten texts is low, coupled with its size is too large and the price is high. In this way, The future of revolutionary new technology in the market slowed down. Over the next two years, although Apple and other PDA vendors did their best to develop and improve their products, the PDA was still not recognized by the market and even was a joke to critics. But beyond all expectations, Palm Pilot, a PDA product from U.S. Robotics Inc. (now acquired by 3Com), became a dark horse in 1996 and swept the entire PDA market. In two years, Palm Pilot has sold more than 2 million units. No one thought at first, to finally rule the market