A device with a 12 inch screen, keyboard, internet, and can connect to a Treo? A laptop. That is the problem - the Foleo screen was smaller than that, as I recall, so it was really a device in search of a market. In your message regarding RE: Finally Palm does something right .... dated Thu, 6 Sep 2007 14:47:03 -0400, Ravi.Patel said that ...
> I'm kindaof upset that the Foleo was canceled because I was looking forward > to being able to read/write my email on a larger mobile screen than my Palm > Treo's. You'd think there'd be a market for a device with a 12" screen, a > full keyboard, internet connectivity, and one that could connect to my > Treo. I guess I'll be forever stuck to the 3" screen... > > > > > > > From: %%email.bounce%% [mailto:%%email.bounce%%] On Behalf Of Khun Yee Fung > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 11:45 AM > To: Palm Developer Forum > Subject: Re: Finally Palm does something right .... > > Again, I am very new to Palm development, so whatever I say probably does > not mean much to you old timers. For all I know, this might all be off-base > to you. > > But you know what, I like PalmOS. There are a few limitations, big, major, > critical, and fatal, even. But the rest is really nice. The biggest > problem, I think, is that it takes a good programmer to program on PalmOS > in C or C++. Therefore not too many people will program on it. Not the > mediocre or worse programmers, that is for sure. It is a trade-off: you > either have lots of programmers, good, bad, and ugly ones, all included, or > you have only the elite. > > A few years ago, I was talking to RIM. They asked me what I thought about > getting RIM more popular, to get more developers develop on it. Being a > brash person that I was and am, I told them they had to have Java on it, > they had to have developers who are not very good programmers to be able to > develop on it. Having C++ only, that was in 2000, was not good enough, as > we don't have a lot of good C++ programmers around. You see, if your > toolkit is in C++, you need good C++ programmers. If your toolkit is in > Java, more or less any Java programmer will do. Mind you, at that time, > J2ME was not widespread, so I was talking about having the full J2SE on > blackberry. > > I program on PalmOS5 only, as I work on Treo devices. What do I want to > see improved? For that version, well, user level multi-threading, true > multi-processing, protected memory for processes, and remove the "when > refreshing the networking interfaces you need a GUI" feature. Segments have > to go: that is so 1980's. In other words, get Linux on it as fast as > possible. Do an Apple MacOS X, move PalmOS up to become a GUI toolkit on > top of Linux (or BSD). Linux and BSD are both very small, so that should > not be a problem. > > Yes, I know ACCESS owns PalmOS. But Palm has the source code now, they > should be able to modify whatever they need to. > > And whatever happens to the Linux port they were supposed to be doing? It > would be weird if we had Linux coming from Palm and ACCESS all at the same > time. But that would still be better than the status quo. > > I like PalmOS. It is a very nice. > > Sorry for the long post and the rant. > > Khun Yee > On 9/6/07, Michal Seliga < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > personally i dont trust palm anymore. this fiasco with foleo was last drop. > of > course i will continue working on palm programs, its my job, but i dont see > future anymore (as all of my ex-colleagues which already left, i am last > dinosaur :-). its time to really start to work on other platforms. > > 'next generation', 'flexible', 'performance' such things were written since > announcement of palmos 6... and where we are... they even cancelled all > pdas and > instead they create the dumbest smartphones in universe which lack features > which 7 years old ordinary mobile phones already had. not speaking that > 'modern' > treo 680 is much slower then treo 650 while it runs with same processor > speed > > maybe after few days i will 'forgive' palm, or maybe they will release such > device soon that i will understand that all this wasnt just because some > manager > didnt slept properly... who knows :-). so far all this seem to me its only > typical business talk about nothing > > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www..access-company.com/developers/forums/ > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ > > > -- > For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, > please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
