Be and Palm will create an operating system that runs on StrongARM if my
information is correct. This creates something of another problem the WinCE
had/has? Compatibility between internal products.
Take for example the WinCE 1.0/2.0 fiasco. (Oh, here is this insanely great
program. You must have a HPC with an SH3 Processor. Oh, You have a PPC with
a SH3? HPC with MIPS? PPC with MIPS? HPC/Pro? Tablet? Won't run.) I used to
own a Nino 330 (PPC WinCE) and a Casio Cassiopeia (WinCE 1.0) before I got
my Palm III. It was a nightmare. There was never the correct architecture
and/or processor so you could run the greatest program ever developed.
If Palm has the new Be for Palm developed, it MUST have a compatibility
layer for the older software. Why? Most programmers are somewhat lazy. (Not
all but, most.) They really don't want to update their code unless there is
a tangible problem with it. (Money involved not withstanding) I used to be a
CS major until last week. :)
Why do you not want to create another platform...
It causes software companies to have to train for a new system they do not
yet know will be commercially viable, this costs money. What happens if the
product tanks? They lose money. Apple does not have the market share in the
PDA world to have developers develop for an untested platform.
Michael W.
On 1/5/02 9:10 AM, "Apostolos Koutropoulos" <admiralak_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> exqueeze me one moment here,
> but if you havent been following the news these days, palm
> bought off Be inc,
> they will use Be to make a new "palm OS", and by all
> indications its not going to be
> the palm OS people use now, I foresee it like something of
> a MacOS 9 to MacOS X transition
> for the palm users, so in effect palm would be creating a
> new platform.
>
> second of all, what is wrong with creating another
> platform? The poing in life
> is to make better things, if the way to do that is by
> another platform then so be it.
> The palm platforms stiiiiiiiinks :p --
>
>
> Admiral
>
>
>
> --- Michael Whitten <mime_at_home.com> wrote:
>>
>> I never believed the iWalk for a sec either, it just was
>> not something Apple
>> would design or put on the market. I think if Apple were
>> to get back into
>> the PDA market they would buy Palm, and reingineer that.
>> Not create another
>> platform.
>>
>
>
> =====
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