Hate to tell you this but the Embedded Visual Tools for the WinCE and
PocketPC devices is less than $15 in the United States. I got mine for
$6.00 but the price, for shipping only, is currently less than $15.00.
MicroSoft is giving away the developement systems for the PocketPC and
WinCE devices. You only pay shipping. That includes the IDE, the
compiler, the SDKs, etc. Everything to develope for the PocketPc ann
WinCe devices.
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom McCormick wrote:
> $15 for VB and VC???? Maybe in the UK, but not in the US. Full versions of
> those products are $480 each. Additionally, back when it was called Win CE
> (I don't know if this is still true - perhaps that's what you can get for
> $15), you still had to get the add-ons for those products to write Win CE
> programs (additional $), and they only ran on a Windows NT box (another
> investment if you didn't happen to have one). $300 for a polished and
> complete IDE is a good deal by US standards.
>
> (Please let me know if you can really get a compiler for $15 in the UK -
> Thanks)
>
> Thomas McCormick
> Centennial Technologies
> 7 Lopez Road
> Wilmington, MA 01887
> Phone: (978) 805-2147
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Logie Urquhart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 9:53 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: RE: Palm PDA - Market Share ???
>
> > 2.) Yeah, from real high to kinda high. Personally, I
> cannot
> > justify $500+
> > for a PDA.
>
> In the UK price for IIIc ~ �300, price for iPaq ~ �420, is
> �120 worth the
> extra CPU speed, sound, and 32mb RAM (compare to 8mb on
> IIIc).
>
> IMHO Yes I think the iPaq is well worth the price.
>
> You also have to consider the price of the dev. tools. MS
> are saying you get
> the version of VB and VC++ for the price of the CD ($15).
> While the palm
> "offical" dev tool (Code warrior) costs $300+.
>
> You can get the GCC compiler, but the version I use (links
> from
> www.vfdide.com) seems to be very difficult to set up, as I
> only have a Palm
> III, and need to use the older SDK.
>
>
> > 3.) Whose demands? Where are these posted? IMHO, Palm has
> > been incredibly
> > responsive in supplying what people really demand as
> compared to what
> > marketing surveys have indicated. In the past, Palm
> supplied
> > a black and
> > white PDA and reduced power CPU with Graffiti when the
> market was
> > "demanding" a high powered color PDA with true handwriting
>
> > recognition.
>
> BTW The iPaq Pocket PC OS uses a handwritting system very
> similer to that on
> the Palm. I was able to enter data in to a HP machine
> (running same OS) with
> no problems at all.
>
>
> Logie
>
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