Everything is permitted

Good morning. On this day 22 years ago, a company named Palm introduced a mobile device called Zire , a $99 attempt to woo regular people—consumers—into using handheld computers, then called personal digital assistants.

Two decades later, handheld computers are ubiquitous , and personal assistants are, shall we say, a bit more AI-flavored than they used to be.

But $99? Friend, those days are long gone. —Andrew Nusca

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