At 8:34 AM -0700 7/19/99, Elia Freedman wrote:
>pertaining to the other groups. In other words, the OS group is keeping us
>up-to-date, giving advanced warning about new OS', etc., and we need to
>begin recognizing that the units themselves are now completely separate from
>the operating system.
You're overstating things a little. The engineers all still know each
other, and there's still a very tight integration between the hardware
('device') side and the OS. That won't change. The developer support
group is also still very much in the loop. If anything the internal
communication is getting better, not worse.
Still, you should probably stop thinking of Palm/3Com as the sole provider
of Palm OS devices. The whole point of an "OS group" and an OS focus is to
make the same 'services' available to licensees, of which we have quite a
few now.
Our goal is to make sure you're very clear on what's general to the OS, and
what is specific to a given device, from any device manufacturer. The more
your apps play nice and stick to supported OS stuff, the more likely they
are to work on any new Palm OS device.
Re: the Palm IIIe connected organizer -- the device so closely resembles
our other IIIx or V products that the compatibility story is very simple.
If you're compatible with the IIIx or V, you're almost certainly compatible
with the IIIe. The only exception would be apps that write to FLASH, and
we did warn you about that...
--Bob
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