Now I'm all for free enterprise, but why or why do companies need to follow each other into mature (or maturing) markets?

(It's sort of like the lemmings and the sea ...)

(Oh, BTW "Invent" is the motto -- so what are they adding to establish the new state-of-the-art, the new cutting edge?)

Now we word from Yahoo/PC World that Hewlett-Packard has unveiled its first smart phone -- a candy-bar format iPaq built on the Windows Mobile 6 platform with phone keypads instead of QWERTY keyboards.

The pewter-colored GSM/EDGE iPaq 500 series Voice Messenger is expected to hit the market in late spring.