For me the Palm Pilot family of hand held devices is a portable programmable
computer. Thats exactly what I and my customers want. Day Planners,
email, and speed sheets, while handy, are not critical to us. What we want
and need is a computer; something that we can build on; something that can
be taken anywhere easily and does not require large amounts of power and has
good development support. Also critical is cost, at $144.00 for Palm
IIIx, everybody can afford one.
So for us the Palm fills the bill; compared CE devices are too big, too
expensive, not daylight readable, and lets face it, a MicroSloth product :(.
Just my 2 cents.
jason
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From: "HowY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 7:46 AM
Subject: Re: OffTopic? - Microsoft Anti-Competitive Practices
> To toss in a few cents...
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> The issue of PalmOS vs PocketPC is hitting critical mass over here.
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> And as just an opinion even PALM seems to be loosing
> sight of their niche.
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> The palm is a REPLACEMENT for a DAY PLANNER.
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> This is what is does BEST and the market it has penetrated.
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> We as developers have extended our end-user desktop by
> leaps and bounds over the past few years. We are ALL
> loosing sight of the target here.
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> Ifin I want to play i'll get a gameboy...
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> Ifin I want an MP3 player... well I dont want one anyway...
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> Microsoft and the hand-held PC people are simply trying
> to grab up the scraps left in the wake of the palm revolution.
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> Thoes who are not day planner people.. who want Music...
> "can you say DiamondRIO" I digress....
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> The palm performs better than any pocket device available
> and the developer community is outstanding.
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> PALM KEEP YOUR FOCUS 'cus since you've gone
> public and got spun off 3com you're starting to loose
> sight of the target & market that made the palm what it
> is!
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