Oh hardly. Not with PalmOS clones still having 80% of the
market....and with SONY aggressivly releasing PalmOS products on a dang
near monthly basis it seems. Good ones, too. (Not as good as my
Handera, but nice nevertheless, with a really nice color screen.)
And considering you gotta pay $500+ for any PocketPC, versus being able
to get a pretty good PalmOS unit for $150 (or less if you look around;
the low-end PalmOS clones are now below $100) and I haven't seen any
sort of downward trend EVER in the price of PocketPC's, I don't think
that PalmOS has anything to really worry about.
Not to mention, PocketPC's are slow and crash-prone and have an
interface even WORSE than desktop Windows. I used Newtons and palms
because they are usuable and reliable and fast. That's why I don't use
PocketPC's.
- Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: "Cooney, David" <D.Cooney_at_mail1.tay.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:27:05 -0000
Subject: Re: [NTLK] Community Development
>
> How about by waking up ?
>
> Unfortunately PocketPC will have the market sewn up by the end of
> next year
> !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel M. Sciamma [mailto:joelsciamma_at_compuserve.com]
> Sent: 02 November 2001 11:29
> To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
> Subject: [NTLK] Community Development
>
>
>
> Alexandre,
>
> > The idea of a successor to the Newt seems to be a recurring theme
> here.
> > And we basically have a lot of ideas of what an ideal PDA should
> be.
> > Yet, we don't have the manpower to build it.
>
> Well, if we could tempt Steve Capps and Walter Smith away from
> Microsoft,
> lure a hardware genius like Burrell Smith into the fold and get some
> startup
> capital from somewhere, we could revisit the Newton design with an
> even
> better object-oriented OS based on an open source model running on
> available
> chipsets and voila!
>
> It might even be capable of running Newton software in 'emulation'...
>
> Where shall we start?
>
> Joel.
>
>
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