Point taken, David. But sometimes developing products that take advantage of
these libraries and drivers is easier than figuring out how to get them to
customers who may or may not have them. True we don't want to overload the
device with features that most may not use. On the other hand, it would be a
shame to be able to take advantage of them on only 1 or 2 devices when such
a feature, like WAP, could be brought to many more. Presumable, Palm is
licensing Planet.com's on an unlimited basis. Otherwise, to distribute the
necessary libraries will become difficult.
--Alan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 12:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: WAP browser
>
>
> >But presumably all devices from Palm Pro and up can utilize a wireless
> >modem and thus be perfect candidates for WAP.
>
> Well, yes, but that doesn't mean it should be in the rom of every device.
> The "kitchen sink" philosophy leads to huge rom images, increased testing
> and development time for the OS releases, complexity for the users, and so
> forth (for examples, see our competitors). Not to mention higher
> costs and
> physical manufacturing issues due to requiring larger rom chips.
>
> Presumably all devices could be hooked up to a scanner or printer through
> the serial port, but that doesn't mean that we should put all the
> necessary
> libraries and drivers into the rom. That's why there's ram, to load on
> apps and such from third parties :-)
>
> There's a balance between putting in certain functionality to be available
> across the board, and the drawbacks such as those listed above.
> The simple
> answer of "throw it all in" isn't always wise in the long term.
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
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