On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobilize/palm-doomed-let-good-byes-begin-965

  This is news?

  I have owned a PalmPilot mumble, a Palm III mumble, a Visor Deluxe,
a Palm m125, two of the Sony PEG-TG50, and now a Centro.  That Sony
had some of the best design concepts of any PDA I've used (like a
built-in, spring-loaded metal cover).  Pimlico DateBk is the best
calendar app I've ever used on any platform, bar none.  I'm not
looking forward to giving it up when the Centro becomes an
unmaintainable platform.

  But damn, Palm is one incompetent company.  They have practically
done everything in their power to piss off their customers, their
business partners, their developers, the press, everybody.  What they
didn't piss off they just pissed away.  Gag.

  Trivia: The first PDA developed by Palm was the Tandy Zoomer.  The
OS was derived from PC/GEOS.  An application written for PC/GEOS could
be run on the Zoomer, and it would adopt all the PDA UI conventions
with no code changes.  GEOS provided a modular UI.

-- Ben

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