People have been saying this for the past 10 years. I suppose that some day it will become true, but why today?

Mp3 players existed long before the iPod. But the iPod increased the market greatly because it intorduced seemingly-endless storage capacity to the category. Now the iPod leads the market into new features, such as video playback etc.

What PDAs need are this kind of “killer feature” that helps them break into the general consumer market, not just the geek and eorporate markets.

(I personally think that “killer feature” could be VNC over some ubiquitous wireless protocol, like a cellular protocol. The general public would understand and love a way to access their home or office PC from anywhere using a tiny pocket device. No more finding poor “mobile” versions of your apps to run copies of your files — instead run your “full” apps on your original files anytime, anywhere!)