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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62556)	8/16/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 186894

Paul, They(CE) seem to be going the way of increased complexity and that seems to resemble the ever increasing bloat that drove the x86 series. I think the small CE machines will populate their own niche leaving the PALM to it's niche.Gates seems to be grooming CE for a sea of niches though? A tiny keyboard to fit a palm will never fly, voice recognition for a tiny CE machine might be doable in 2 years but who wants to mutter into a machine in public? Better tape it and transcribe to V/R later as those machines are already optimised at $50 What ultra low power CPUs with enough speed exist/will exist to save CE? Gates has the habit of persisting until he gets it right, ruining the market for others as he goes in a spoiler way(dog n manger) If and when he gets there will the Palm OS be so close optimal that others will never get in? Bill