I'm sorry you don't hear more positive things, David.
Here's one for you - as a developer, it was EXTREMELY helpful to hear
about Palm's upcoming switch of CPUs. Nomatter how much you might hope
everyone can just write to the basic OS calls, I write everything now a
little differently because in the back of my mind I know we're heading
into a new assembly, a new architecture, and emulation. Knowing the
details isn't as important as just knowing the possibility.
And i have to say Palm has been excellent about not springing the CPU
change on us.
:)
P.S. Put in a plug for a 68K device for me. Maybe Motorola will make
you a 200 MHz 68030 core.
David Fedor wrote:
>
> >I saw the new Palm model posting.
>
> The rumor, you mean.
>
> >The change is alarming not because it is different, but rather, the first
> >we hear about it is less than one month before the official launch. I
> >thought Palm was going to get better about keeping developers informed.
>
> First of all, we don't comment on rumors. Quality of articles on the web
> vary wildly, from reasonably accurate to hilariously inaccurate (and those
> ones we circulate internally for humor and amazement purposes.) But saying
> which was which is never a good idea, since if we were ready to announce
> something then we would.
>
> (It is a real learning experience when you work somewhere and have news
> media write about you. You'll never read newspapers the same way again,
> because you figure if they are so inaccurate about things you know the
> facts of, then they're probably just as inaccurate about most everything
> else. There's a bunch of truth, of course, but the average truth
> percentages are astonishingly worse than you may realize.)
>
> Second, yes, we do keep developers informed, and do so better than before,
> and we intend to keep it up (realizing nobody's perfect). But that will
> never mean that we tell all, 6 months before something ships. At any given
> announcement date there'll always be people saying "you should have told me
> earlier". We can't win.
>
> Granted, it is natural that all we ever hear is complaints, and there's no
> pleasing everyone. But don't bash us for not commenting on rumors. And
> even when the rumors might be true leaks, how are we supposed to know when
> the leaks are going to be published anyway?
>
> Our intent is to tell developers of issues that affect them, as early as
> possible and appropriate and as makes business sense. But not to share our
> product plans from here till 2003, or just satisfy curiosity.
>
> Sheesh, I even saw articles complaining about Apple's new iMac colors, from
> people complaining because their interior decorating (picked to match the
> old colors) now clashes. They probably wanted to be informed earlier!
>
> Ok, I'm rambling now. It is just that I'm tired of the same accusations
> being made each and every time there's any new product or rumor.
>
> -David Fedor
> speaking for myself, and I should probably go home for the weekend and relax.
>
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