I've seen the mention of color in a PDA mentioned a number of times and I
can practically see the sneer that people make whenever it is mentioned.
Other than the additional hardware requirements and cost.. what is the
problem with this? When the IIIc was announced, people on this forum were
practically drooling over it.. now all of a sudden its just a fad that users
who don't know any better want?
I replaced my old PalmPilot Personal with 2MB upgrade card and my wife's
PalmPilot Professional (bought in one of those bundles that CodeWarrior used
to sell) with a pair of IIIc's. For me, the decision was made for the
"slickness factor". When I'm on a potential client's site, trying to sell
them on the Palm platform and they see my IIIc, with modest use of color to
make points where needed and the photo album I keep of my kids (including my
four legged kids), it solidifies my position that Palm is building on its
already huge developer and application base. For my wife, it was similar..
she carries full color images of some of our non-technical product line in
her Palm... and has made some sales for the technical side of things in the
process. So yes, there is a lot of room for killer apps that require color.
Killer *business* apps.
<Obligatory CE comment>
When the subject of CE comes up, the question usually is asked by this
prospective client on why Microsoft keeps changing their platform. People
who have been watching the PDA market from the outside have seen Microsoft
release now a third, radically different, system.. and that it is not clear
if they are supporting the previous systems at all. (Does software written
for previous versions of CE run on the Pocket PC?) I've had a couple
customers already ask me what happens to all those machines running CE... is
Microsoft abandoning them? What if they decide the Pocket PC isn't quite it
yet, either?
Then they see Palm.. and the software originally written for the original
Pilot still running on the IIIc.. and that makes their decision for them.
Customers looking for a platform in which to invest a large chunk of change
are not (usually) looking for "slick" at the cost of long term support. Cost
of ownership and all that.
</Obligatory CE comment>
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Bradly J. Barton - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jenies Technologies Incorporated
(972) 602-1835
http://JTI.net
http://PalmInHand.com
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