>Anyway this is starting to sound suspiciously like a rather hand wavy >defense against your valid point ;). > Not really...in vertical POS apps, you want your device as simple as humanly possible. The kinds of people that will use, say, a Symbol with software of the ilk I and others who develop for the POS industry, typically have limited computer knowledge and many have never had the opportunity to play with a Palm Pilot. If you want to make your solution usable, you have to make it work like this: 1. User starts app. 2. User uses app. 3. User closes app. 4. User starts another app. ... You often don't want your user to be able to change apps while doing some tedious process, as you lose data and productivity. While we'd would still find uses for the old launcher (and probably ways around it), the new launcher is a more conceptually simple and procedural method. Dang it, now I'm snowballing, but you get the idea. -Rus -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
