Mssrs. Barton and Lippincott make excellent points. My intent, however, is
not to advocate Pocket PC; my purchase and use of the iPAQ is the only
advocacy I think is necessary. Rather, my point is that it's perfectly
reasonable for posters to say 'WinCE has this feature or that advantage; why
doesn't Palm have it?' To mock the poster -- even when their tone is
annoying -- or to laud Palm's many advantages is to completely miss the
point.
These questions loom in my mind, and if someone can answer them, I will be
genuinely grateful:
1) Why is PalmOS hardware so anemic compared
with the iPAQ? The standard answer seems to be,
'Pocket PC devices have to be faster because their
OS is so inefficient.' This partially -- only partially --
addresses the speed difference. What about the
screen resolution, the sound, the RAM? Is battery life
the reason for this discrepancy? Price surely isn't.
2) What is Palm doing to make development faster
and easier? Some might say this isn't Palm's
problem, but I say it is. CodeWarrior and
Constructor -- in my humble opinion -- suck. I like
GCC, but a lot of people are intimidated by it. What
is to be done?
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