According to PCMag, the golden age of personal digital assistants (PDAs) ended in 2007. Are you seeing the pattern here? Smartphones didn’t waste any time taking out lesser, weaker gadgets — they’re the apex predators of the digital jungle, and PDAs were just another meal. Ironically, some of the most well-known personal assistants today are the ones that reside on your smartphone. What’s unique about the case of the PDA is that it’s probably the closest thing to a smartphone to exist in the pre-smartphone world.
PDAs really did it all: email, web browsing, calendars, address books, note files — some even worked as phones. They rightfully should have evolved into smartphones themselves, but instead, they were replaced by them. So how did that happen?
Well, for PDAs it was really a matter of form more than function. PDAs were covered in buttons, and that meant every application had to find a way to work using the same interface, whether or not it provided the best experience. Smartphones did away with all this, instead using touchscreens that could endlessly adapt to any application. And perhaps the PDA’s most iconic feature — the stylus — was replaced with the oldest pointing device in history: the human finger. Though, the Samsung Galaxy Note series did an admirable job of bringing the stylus back with some considerable measure of success — for Samsung’s phones, if not the rest of the smartphone universe.
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