> Seems to indicate alot of things and that the "simplicity" in a Palm could
be ending soon and that alot of "development" changes
> could be in store for the "new" Palms. Anyone care to translate what it
means?
>
So, what does all this mean:
1. You are young, and You don't know that everything changes (and You'll
loose 70% of energy for technologies that are disappearing).
2. In time of 1000 MHz processors it's obvious that Dragonball can' compete
with faster chips. Video Phone on Dragonball? MP3 on Dragonball? It's a bed
joke!
3. It's obvious that current OS is somewhere between DOS and Windows 3.1. I
apologise, but Palm's OS developers are making lots of mistakes. "Texas"
(American ASCII) code page in 3rd millennium?! Did they hear about Internet,
Unicode, World?
4. Max. of 256 colours? 'RLE' compression?
5. How many OS are out? 10? 20? 30? Backward compatibility for BW, greyscale
devices? It's crazy!
6. With my 25 years in programming, and their "Just for US" philosophy, I
belief that they tend to disappear in 5 years.
7. They will also need to cut with the 'old' OS's, like MS with Windows 3.1
or 98. And you'll have to learn new SDK, C++, multimedia ... That's normal.
8. Palm, in current condition, is useless in future. It's an agenda which
want to become a PC. And it seems that someone in Palm know that...
Peter
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