We have been debating the pluses and minus of other development environments and
platforms on this board before. I wouldn't call
this off topic; more like non tech.
Going away development tools is nothing new. Hell, there is one for the Palm platform
right now. Personally, I gave PocketPC a
rundown when it came out and overall wasn't impressed. The one really big turn off
that I saw was a total lack of consistency of
the hardware buttons. It is like having a different keyboard layout per manufacturer.
Also, there was no common machanical
interface for whole modules to connect such as the Modem connector or Springboard
slots.
Here is where the industrial designers had very little knowledge of what end users
were expecting. I can go on but overall, I
wasn't impressed. The products is in the dreaded features and functionality canyon
between laptops and PDAs. (i.e. It is too small
for laptop work and too clunky for overall consistent PDA use). It is an enterprise
device to say the most of it.
Overall, I expect the PocketPC stuff to fizzle out by the end of the summer and then a
lot of new PalmOS licensed devices will be
released as in the past.
Steve
"Michael S. Davis" wrote:
> One of the things that makes Palm so attractive is the vast number of
> applications. Partly due to the low cost of developement s/w.
>
> Microsoft wants the PDA OS market.
>
> Microsoft has always charged big bucks for Development Systems.
>
> Microsoft has always charged big bucks for CE Toolkits.
>
> Now, in order to gain market share, Microsoft is doing with CE Dev that
> it did with browsers. It's giving away their development systems for
> Windows CE.
>
> Sounds like another lawsuit in the making.
>
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