eWeek just reviewed the m100. Here is a snippet of what they had to say
near the end of the article. I hope this is not in violation of copyright
laws.
"Palm officials said the design changes are important enough to offset the
incompatibility issues, but this decision is likely to produce ill will
within the Palm third-party developer community, which has been burned
already by the Palm III/Palm V design schism."
Here is the link to the article
http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2612023,00.html
BTW the idea of using a plastic screen is very appealing. I am not
knocking the design, I don't want to knock the dev support people, who
probably dreaded todays announcement because of ranters like me. The
problem is Palm needs to understand that as the market leader they have
much more to gain and less to lose by telling developers what they are up
to. That is why Intel and MS do it.
In fact the new CEO of Palm has already started doing this. By signaling
the intention to pursue wireless aggressively, and switch to an ARM based
design he is prepping the developer community. Palm did it again recently
with their announcement that they will support SDI. So the upper level
management seems to grasped that this is in there interest. Unfortunately
most of Palm still seems to have the hunkered down, we getting our pants
beaten off by Cisco, catch up, inferiority complex, where they kept
everything top secret. That was probably a good strategy back then, not now.
BTW I remember at Palm Source 98 when Marc Brecow stated there had never
been a project called Razor. There has never been anything like that it
was all a rumor. I believe they released the Palm V a few months after that.
Lets hope someone from senior management reads this and gets a clue.
Oliver
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