Talk:Mobile Internet device

message: In my view this page needs to be reverted to  09:12, 21 October 2008 as the current content is unreadable, uncited and inaccurate.  Make any objections, if there are none I will do this tomorrow. Jamougha (talk) 16:59, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  The current article is poorly written and inaccurate -- some of the sentences are completely incoherent (eg "These technologies can be seen on EDA...  ...Palm and various hybrid form factor design, though sometimes electronic dictionary and netbook of the third world countries education initiative form factor is strongly disputed.")  It needs to be rewritten or reverted. 24.85.91.86 (talk) 06:52, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree also.  Not quite sure which revision you figured to revert to (none display with the exact time you list), but going back to something like this version  would seem to be a step in right direction.  Lost a bunch of references in the external links, and the new material is unreferenced and badly needs copy editing.  (Also deleting the additional page split off about Mobile Internet Device (Intel) - there isn't enough material here yet to warrant splitting the page.)  Zodon (talk) 08:13, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise. The revision Zodon suggests is the same 09:12 (UTC), 21 October revision as Jamougha proposes, and I'd second that one as the most recent revision before all the rambling digressive nonsense started appearing. Letdorf (talk) 12:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  The article still has multiple issues.  I'll return to it tomorrow and see if I can make any improvements.  Jamougha (talk) 16:54, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions of October 21 thru 24 

message: Something should be said regarding the commericalization of the Aigo P8860 (notable is its lack of HSPA) and other protypes  that are coming to market including the Asus R50A, WiBrain i1, BenQ MIS S6, Clarion MiND, Compal's MID, Elektrobit's WiMAX enabled MID, Lenovo's MID, LG's, and Panasonic's Toughbook CF-U1
FelixHcat (talk) 08:24, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commercialization & Prototypes 

message: I think we could use a better image... something similar to this or this...  I can't figure out the copyright crap, are these images uploadable to wikipedia?
FelixHcat (talk) 01:20, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I replaced the UMPC picture by the N810 of Nokia and added a Atom-based MID in the Intel section. Both pictures you suggested look more like a UMPC (still, it's hard to define the difference). I think, Steve Jobs named the iPhone two years ago as a 'breakthrough' mobile internet device (have to check the keynote). -- Saiht (talk) 00:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New Image Needed

message: Intel explains the difference between a UMPC and an MID
FelixHcat (talk) 01:22, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: UMPC vs MID

message: This makes no sense. 67.164.125.7 (talk) 02:49, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. I changed it and hope you like the N810. The german wikipedia has a better one, but this picture is not in the commons yet. -- Saiht (talk) 00:46, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the MID article illustrated with a picture of a UMPC? 

message: The article only mentions Intel based hardware. It needs information on ARM and other platforms. The Chinese company SmartQ has a range of ARM based MIDs, so do other companies. Bizzybody (talk) 07:08, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  MIDs with ARM CPUs 

message: The following table has been removed from Tablet computer, where it doesn't belong. Maybe someone may want to merge it with the Intel MID platforms section?. Diego (talk) 13:27, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Intel technology for tablets

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thread_title:  External links modified (February 2018) 

message: I came across this article (as one does) and noticed they describe a class of device I don't really see any more, like the iPod Touch or the Windows-based netbook (which morphed into the Chromebook), and it got me wondering: is this a dead product category? There haven't been really any major additions to this article at least since the end of 2014, check this diff, mainly just small copyediting, template updates (bots marking links as dead), and the like. Smartphones are basically ubiquitous now, and from my (eurocentric) experience low-end smartphones killed whatever market niche these devices filled.
So I was thinking of ways to update this article to reflect this, but I'm not that experienced in big changes; how would one go about doing it? Turn it into the past tense, "the Mobile Internet Device was a category of mobile device of the late 2000s and early 2010s, providing (entertainment etc.) (...) As smartphones got cheaper during the 2010s, the market for specialized MIDs evaporated."? How does one reference the absence of any new product in a category, and the lack of any market or academic interest in a category, absent a retrospective "The Death of the MID" essay in some magazine, that a quick google didn't bring up? - oatco (talk) 23:29, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are these dead now? (2022)