My vote goes to that too. I can see a market for a $95 Palm; totally bare bones
device. Pretty much just masked ROM, 1 or 2 Megs
of RAM and a really cheap package. This could be very appealing to enterprise
application integrators who buy in the 100s at a
time.
Steve
Steve wrote:
> >At 4:04 PM +0100 2000/03/02, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> >> i do not think palm or anyone else would be crazy enough to release a
> >> new device with anything < 8Mgs these days :>
> >
> >Be careful... we're a pretty nutty bunch! As are our licensees. :o)
> >
> >Think LOW cost devices: 1 meg of RAM is cheaper than 8.
>
> Actually this is quite apropos of the discussion earlier on speed. A 1 MB
> device is perfectly usable for the vast majority of uses to which Palms
> are and will be put. Obviously there ARE applications which want memory
> (email, browsing, docs), but to think that a device is unusable or even
> unmarketable with less is missing the point.
>
> Unless, of course, it's a WINCE device. ;-)
>
> Steve Patt
> President, Stevens Creek Software
> http://www.stevenscreek.com/palm
> Best PQA ("ePQA"), PalmSource 99
> Best Application ("PizzaScan"), Palm Developer's Conference 1998
> First printing software for the Palm - September, 1997
>
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