jacky Cheung wrote:
> If Palm users feel that in two years their hand held is a piece of junk,
> what are the odds they'll buy another Palm?
To keep using the same software they are already used to using.
> Or if they do, why not buy a PocketPC which has much higher hardware specs that
>might not become obsolete as quickly?
Because there are not that many titles for it AND the user experience is too
cumbersome.
> One of the selling points of the Palm platform is you're supposed to be able to do
>cool things without needing gigabytes of ram
> and gighertz processors. You have an appliance that 'just works" and doesn't need
>constant upgrades. Supporting older OS's is
> part of the price.
No necessarily, it considers what you customers have. In general the newer the
machine the use has, the better chance they will be
applications.
> And for the record, supporting OS 3.1 is not so bad. It took me only a few
> man weeks to port an app to OS 3.1 -> first you encapsulate all the calls to OS 3.5
>functions, then you emulate or disable them
> under OS 3.1.
That is about it. Supporting 3.1 or above is a good policy right now.
Steve
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