General question: is that BeOS's response or yours?
One point that your analysis tends to overlook is the desktop/enterprise
server to handheld connection. This has been increasingly important. As more
and more data exists in a Microsoft world, the PocketPC has an opportunity
to gain a significant advantage. PDAs need to share data, transfer media,
and perform functionality (sometimes limited) along with other computers in
order to truely be useful. Palm has done an alright job with HotSync thus
far. The ability to easily transform data will increasingly play a key role.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Avilla,
> Dane
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 12:47 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: BeOS Response to RE: I hate to say I told you so but..
>
>
> One interesting thing to point out here:
>
> Since Palm announced it was acquiring Be, I've spent quite a bit of time
> looking at the BeOS since presumably much of it will show up in
> some form or
> another in future versions of PalmOS. In a nutshell:
>
> * BeOS is much cleaner and easier to code (than CE)
> * BeOS has much better "media handling"
> * BeOS (like PalmOS) makes excellent use of available hardware,
> compared to
> Windows
>
> IMO, it will be interesting to see how a PalmOS/BeOS system running on a
> 206mhz StrongARM compares to a WinCE device running on the same
> hardware. I
> generally agree that people like the "geewhiz" features more easily
> available (at the moment) on CE: sound, high(er) rez and larger screens
> (yeah, I know HandEra and Sony have em too), color, movies on a PDA,
> wireless LANs, but that's all novelty right now. Battery life
> and speed of
> applications on the device is huge. If an iPAQ is about as
> responsive as a
> Palm, but has a processor that is an order of magnitude faster
> than current
> PalmOS devices, imagine what can be done by a PalmOS device running
> comperable processor technology . . . yum.
>
> Also, iPAQs have the PC Card sleeve . . . but the sleeve has it's own
> battery that has to be charged separately. W/o the extra battery, the
> battery life w/ a wireless LAN card is very poor. Battery life matters.
>
> In short, I agree that the general perception is that CE is trumping Palm,
> but when you look at the Be acquisition and what Palm and its
> licensees have
> in the pipeline, I think things look rather promising.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -DGA
>
> Another thought: As an enterprise developer, having POSE really makes life
> great. Using gremlins to test stability and memory leaking gives Palm
> developers and applications an edge in stability. Random unexplained
> crashes (and data loss) are bad.
>
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