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	ARJWright	2009-08-19 , 23:54
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Originally Posted by dagwud

You know what's really frustrating for me? Of course you don't. "Let me 'splain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up."

I used to be at the front of the acquisition curve! I had "it" before anyone else in the department.

I had a PalmPilot Pro - then a III - then a Vx - then an m500 just to get the SD expansion - then an m515 because Palm improved the color screen. Then I sat around for a few years before buying a Palm TX 3 years back.

Slowly, ever so slowly, I went from being "the geek with the cool new gadget" to "the old coot with the outdated hardware."

That, my friends, was a PAINFUL realization.

There was an article that I did at Brighthand some months back, it was titled "Ahead and Behind at the Same Time;" as mobile technology gets to the point of being more accessible, usable, and affordable, those things that defined power users change.

Within that those is the necessity for companies to not only flesh things out (aka making it available to a wider audience), but also flesh out new areas of innovation and opportunity.

I know its sad that others have cooler gadgets that work with less pain that you; but that's when you as the user at the very edge of the curve needs to take a look at what's next and move there. Only then can the circle of tech life come back around to that point where you will be at the front, and others will be waiting for you to get the bugs out so that you don't look as cool anymore.

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