>>(I'm not just talking to you, Daniel, but to all folks doing stuff like
>>this. Things are going to be exciting and different in the months and
>>years ahead, so hang on to your hat...)
>How about notifying registered developers of these products a little more
>than 48hrs in advance? It would be nice to be able to release updated apps
>for our customers to run on these new and exciting devices in a timely
>fashion.
I'm sure you realize that our competitors would love to know what we're
doing, as far in advance as possible, and that we're not too interested in
that. It is a fine balance: we want our friends to know as much as
possible, as early as possible, but not our competitors. There are plenty
of folks who are friends both with us as well as with our competitors, and
there's no law against that, but it does make disclosure of new products
less possible.
Also, we've licensees who may or may not want to tell anything to anyone.
That's their right... in those cases all we can do is reinforce good habits
like sticking to the APIs and not making assumptions!
It is also a mixed blessing to be disclosed really early on a new project.
Cool and exciting, but it never is an easy situation: APIs change day by
day, docs and tools are nonexistant or very fragile, you're debugging the
device/OS as much as you're debugging your app, or sometimes you're
debugging the debugger which is especially hard! If you're there early
enough to write a nontrivial app, you're not going to have an easy time of
it... fun, yes, easy, no.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
