> 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.
All valid points. But I'd like to point out that the palm originally
had a much higher price and less resources. But developers and users
demanded more. More RAM; more speed; more capabilities. And users
want things like sound, larger screen, and color. Prices and size
always come down.
Users want this and users will get this. Anyone who thinks the world
will stay with a small b/w unit, when they can get the same
footprint, with color, larger screen and sound, is burying thier head
in the sand.
Right now the Pocket PC is about the same size as a palm (slightly
larger). It is a competitor to the Palm IIIc which costs about the
same. Eventually, all b/w devices will go away. How many laptops do
you see in b/w now? NONE! Because users will demand color. I doubt
that the PocketPC will ever have a b/w unit.
I like the palm myself, am a developer, user and very long time
proponent of hand held computing devices and I am now seriously
looking at the PocketPC as another option. I'm not giving up on the
palm, I'm just expanding to the new PocketPC devices.
> jason
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
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>
> > To toss in a few cents...
> >
> > The issue of PalmOS vs PocketPC is hitting critical mass over here.
> >
> > And as just an opinion even PALM seems to be loosing
> > sight of their niche.
> >
> > The palm is a REPLACEMENT for a DAY PLANNER.
> >
> > This is what is does BEST and the market it has penetrated.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Ifin I want to play i'll get a gameboy...
> >
> > Ifin I want an MP3 player... well I dont want one anyway...
> >
> > Microsoft and the hand-held PC people are simply trying
> > to grab up the scraps left in the wake of the palm revolution.
> >
> > Thoes who are not day planner people.. who want Music...
> > "can you say DiamondRIO" I digress....
> >
> > The palm performs better than any pocket device available
> > and the developer community is outstanding.
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
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