Yes, some day we'll be able to simply say:
Requires Palm Computing Platform 3.0 or greater or
Minimum Requirements: A Palm Computing Platform III Series or greater
with 2mb of RAM and the customer will know what that is.
But right now, no one, (some developers, and nearly all consumers)
really know what that means. pilot, PalmPilot Personal, PalmPilot
Professional, Palm III, PalmIIIx, PalmIIIe, PalmV. The users on
this list can swallow that fact that if it runs on my III it'll run
on a Symbol, etc. Joe E. Consumer can't.
We know there isn't a fundamental difference in the V and IIIx except
shape. The consumer doesn't see it that way. The public is starting
to get confused.
Apple is falling into the same traps with it's stupid naming
conventions. A PowerBook G3 can mean a couple of things. Is the
accessory going to work ? Hell I don't really know. Do I have one
with a Bronze keyboard ? I've never really seen one with a Bronze
Keyboard ;-)
On your current track, it looks like and I would expect all III's to
be compatible. It would be a bad idea at this time to bring out a
IIIp with a PPC processor ;-)
-MD
>At 6:16 PM -0700 7/19/99, Steve Patt wrote:
>>One thing for the Palm folks to think about is this - we don't need to
>>know WHAT a new model is, whether it's a high end, low end, or anything.
>
>One thing for you guys to think about is this -- Palm Computing (a division
>of 3Com Corp.) is not the sole manufacturer of devices that run Palm OS.
>In the forseeable future, other companies that are not Palm will ship
>devices that run some version of Palm OS, and those devices will run your
>apps.
>
>So you have a couple of options -- one is to try to keep your list of
>devices up to date, but that will get harder as more companies ship more
>devices. The other option is to start educating your customers about the
>platform. Probably you'll do both.
>
> --Bob
