What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

Steevy Maximus

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Being the pedantic ass that I am...She's not wrong. The post wasn't claiming the "first gaming portable", but it was attributing the device with popularization of broader media consumption on a portable device. And I'm not sure that's an incorrect take.

THAT SAID...I'm utterly baffled by a government official, much less Linda McMahon of all people, espousing found memories of the PSP.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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Portable DVD players existed as far back as 1998 and the first laptop capable of playing DVD movies out of the box was released before the PSP launched. The first handheld media player capable of playing videos beat the PSP to the punch by a couple of years as well(released in 2002) If you're not talking about video, well, the Walkman was released in 1979. Heck, handheld TVs date back to 1970.... The PSP did predate the modern smartphone and the first iPod capable of video playback, though.

I'm baffled by the fact that Linda McMahon is the secretary of education, personally. All the other stuff is just extra...
 
Teufel

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Linda McMahon's taught plenty of lessons in her time.

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Ultra Magnus13

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Steevy Maximus said:
Being the pedantic ass that I am...She's not wrong. The post wasn't claiming the "first gaming portable", but it was attributing the device with popularization of broader media consumption on a portable device. And I'm not sure that's an incorrect take.

THAT SAID...I'm utterly baffled by a government official, much less Linda McMahon of all people, espousing found memories of the PSP.
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Yeah, it a supremely weird call out for her to make, but also a weird thing for people to dog pile on with "well aktually..." Or insult her. The PSP was one of the first main stream devices to nearly all of our current main smartphone features (minus the phone part, but who even uses that". Far more advanced/modern games than its portable gaming competition, movies, music, camera (via an add on), web browser etc.
 
CoffeeHorse

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I had no idea the PSP had all that stuff. I agree she's got a point. She's talking about true pocket computers, which is what smartphones really are. Portable DVD players (or at least the ones I remember) were more laptop than palmtop. Actual handheld video players (again, at least the ones I remember) were really toys more than anything else. The quality was a joke.

I say this as someone who loved palmtop computers. I had a few. I don't remember the exact models but I had a Tandy, a Sharp, and something else. I loved them. Looking back, they were toys. There is no clear lineage between those and smartphones, but it sounds like there's a case to be made for the PSP.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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I don't really consider the PSP to be an ancestor of the smart phone. There IS a clear lineage between palmtop computers and smartphones, though. Palmtops led to the the Apple Newton which lead to the palm pilot which led to the palm trio which is a DIRECT ancestor to modern smartphones. Really the only thing it was missing was capacitive multi-touch.
 
Anonymous X

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I’d say the Cambridge Z88 and the Psion Organiser were the first things that I saw which were portable devices with smartphone type features, obviously minus the media playback and creation features.

I’d say the modern smartphone (as in the iPhone and its imitators) doesn’t have a single ancestor device, really. And it wouldn’t be the PSP. Like the PS3 which arrived the year after, it was a gaming machine with media playback, not the other way round. Admittedly they were much more sophisticated media features than previous had been given.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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Fair enough, though if there was any device that qualifies as a direct ancestor it likely would be the Palm Treo line of phones, the Blackberry devices would really be the only other candidate and they didn't add any form of touch screen until after the iPhone was released.
 
Pocket

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I've been saying for years that the whole PSP line was squandered potential. Sony was ahead of everyone except Apple on developing a smartphone platform, one that would have had the benefit of exclusive access to the PSP's entire back catalog of games (playable via snap-on controls), to say nothing of what a juggernaut Sony was in the electronics field generally. Instead they decided to keep their phone and gaming lineups separate and hop on the Android bandwagon for the former, leaving the PSP line to sink into obscurity and Nintendo to monopolize the handheld market, while the smartphone market devolved into a duopoly.

Microsoft having a six year head start making a pocket computer OS and failing to spin that into a viable iPhone competitor either was also embarrassing to watch. Much like almost every generation of the console wars, it's a case where the ones who lost, lost by forfeit.
 
Ungnome

Ungnome

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We do need more players in the smartphone os market. Non-android based Linux distros are slowly getting there but still not quite ready yet. Be nice for a couple of other options to crop up as well.
 

Ultra Magnus13

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Ironbite4 said:
Oh hey Kash Money, how bad was that hack of your emails?


Oh that bad.

Ironbite-hey Trumpy! I got your next firing!
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Can we please try reading before quiping? Literally at the very top of the article..........

"The breach of a sensitive FBI surveillance system does not appear to be connected to a recent Iranian-linked compromise of FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal emails"
 
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