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Horace Dediu is right again re: the demise of the voice phone

The parable of the the PDA: predicting the smartphone’s future | asymco

The problem is that the vendors that lost this game failed because they listened to their customers. Like with PDAs or with the original mobile phones or first generation of PCs, early adopters are not the audience that should be consulted on how to improve the product.

Absolutely spot on.