I may have phrased that in a strange double negative way.
Modern mobile platforms like Android and iOS are sinister in a way that PalmOS wasn’t. PalmOS, becasue the devices weren’t connected to the internet much if at all, didn’t have the big brother always watching and trying to come up with new ways to exploit the user as is standard today.
There was a lack of sinisterness to the PalmOS ecosystem that we’ve lost.
Sinisterness?
I may have phrased that in a strange double negative way.
Modern mobile platforms like Android and iOS are sinister in a way that PalmOS wasn’t. PalmOS, becasue the devices weren’t connected to the internet much if at all, didn’t have the big brother always watching and trying to come up with new ways to exploit the user as is standard today.