Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what do you do with a PDA that requires aPDA?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:35:26 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> >> address book
> >
> > No better than a paper one, if I needed one.
> 
> Actually, it is much better than a paper one, and in many ways.  

You actually sort of got me there.  What contact information I have
(and it isn't that much) is almost all electronic.  But I don't
generally find myself needing it when all I've got handy is what's in
my pocketses. :-)

> Integrated with a cell phone, 

But I don't use a cell phone.  OK, so what I've learned from this is
that IF you are a person who needs a cell phone, you'll probably find
all of the other stuff compelling.  I'm not in that category.

> As long as you don't need a cell phone, and you don't have a lot of stuff
> (e.g., appointments) to keep track of, this is not for you.  Around here,
> everyone uses PDAs.  When we're in a meeting, we say "OK, when can we meet
> next?  How about September 4?"  Everyone whips out his PDA and everyone
> knows if he can make it on that date, then we add the appointment to our
> schedules.  Done.

I have a wallet with a paper calendar in it; works about the same. 
But it's also true that I don't have too many unpredictable meetings. 
I travel twice a year and we take a vacation in the summer.  I hate
making or receiving phone calls, and my life is so boring that
(outside of lunch) my location is well known at all times.  Now the
interesting thing is that I used to know a ton of people who used
PDAs, but now I know very, very few people who do...unless they're
attached to a cell phone.  I have to admit, that's not what I would
have predicted back in 1999.

jking
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