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It was a great form factor, they should have kept trying it and improving it with newer hardware. I briefly thought of getting one, but didn't have money for another PC at the time.The problem...they kept trying single one-offs of hardware platform designs in the enthusiast category and nothing ever 'stuck' to gain traction with. Which, even products like say the iPhone that were instant successes actually weren't--Apple watched Microsoft flail about pointlessly and ineptly for 20 years failing miserably to sell WInCE phones before they hit the right combo of design and price and software/hardware integration.
It was a great form factor, they should have kept trying it and improving it with newer hardware. I briefly thought of getting one, but didn't have money for another PC at the time.
The problem...they kept trying single one-offs of hardware platform designs in the enthusiast category and nothing ever 'stuck' to gain traction with. Which, even products like say the iPhone that were instant successes actually weren't--Apple watched Microsoft flail about pointlessly and ineptly for 20 years failing miserably to sell WInCE phones before they hit the right combo of design and price and software/hardware integration.
