David wrote:
>I guess you're also fairly confident of compatibility if you're willing to
>print up literature before testing with the hardware/software :-) Great!
>
>Do realize that not all future models will necessarily have all features of
>the old ones, though... the Palm IIIe device is almost a no-brainer in
>terms of software compatibility, but don't count on things always being
>simple like that. (What if it didn't have IR, for example? Not everything
>will have all the features of previous devices.)
If your app is twiddling registers on the chip, all bets are off. But I'm
willing to guess (based on past experience) that the overwhelming
majority of applications will continue to be upwards compatible with
devices for a long time to come (or until the screen size deviates from
160x160, whichever comes first ;-) ). Because the overwhelming majority
of applications just use standard features of the hardware and standard
API calls and really have very little to worry about. That's not to say
the other folks are doing anything wrong, they're just working in a
different area where such differences become important. But most of us
are not.
Steve Patt
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