I think there are ways to explain your questions, Applications on PDAs
are much much less complex than applications on desktop. Documents on
PDAs are much much less complex than documents on desktop. PDA is built
around a few rules, this thing never shuts down, this thing is always
powered, this thing runs only on RAM which is way way way way way way
way way way faster than harddrive. The time needed to write data on the
RAM is pretty fast, and the data need to be written to the RAM is also
pretty small so it could pretty much do that every nanosecond. In a
desktop world of all machine's primary storage is Harddrive and even a
word document can be a few hundred K big I don't think it's possible.
if you ask why u can always lost data on desktop, maybe you should also
ask why there's no instant on application on desktop too.
On $B_at_14|F|(B, 2 10, 2002, at 08:17 , Joel M. Sciamma wrote:
>
> And when your front-most X application, probably the one you are
> working in,
> goes belly up, your data is history - just like it was before. OK, so it
> didn't take the system with it - that's nice.
>
> But this is absolutely not an argument about if X is better than 9 -
> they
> are both decrepit and past it. It's sad that Apple, for probably
> expedient
> reasons, have failed to make any progress. They just ran out of time and
> ideas.
>
> In the seven years I have been using my Newts I have never lost
> anything due
> to a error in SW or HW - now that's clever. And the real beauty of it is
> that I didn't have do anything to make that happen.
>
> The only option one has with all the desktop systems now available is to
> defend yourself against them. The day you don't bother to save will the
> day
> your vital document gets mangled - and so it will continue to be.
>
> This and two dozen other big issues in computing are simply not being
> dealt
> with because everyone seems to have accepted that it's normal.
> It's not normal, it's bad engineering.
>
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