>But I still hold my request that at least in the case of the ARM, Palm
>makes available a physical "reference device" if possible.
Of course this would theoretically be possible, as such things always are
used internally during OS and product development. But prerelease (or
reference) devices are very expensive, and in very short supply, and are
usually buggy.
Would you pay a few thousand dollars for one, and not complain if it didn't
work or if it broke, and not take up time from the small set of people who
could help you diagnose subtle problems and crashes? There's the rub.
We can and do support a very small set of extremely important people on
prerelease hardware, but it just doesn't work on a large enough scale to be
reasonable. Thus our reliance on Pose, which is a fabulous tool for such
things. Not perfect for everything, but great for most situations.
Software scales well, at no incremental expense, and is easily upgraded as
bugs are found and fixed.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
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