> ....
> >Palm has tried to penetrate the business market for years, with
> >very limited success. They are very popular among consumers
> >but business applications are scarce. It's true that business users
> >might not care as much about color as consumers, but what they
> >definitely need is more screen real-estate. You can't display any
> >non-trivial business applications on 160x160 pixels (I'd love to see
> >counter examples with good usability). .....
>
> Having determined not to get involved in this thread, I find
> myself dragged in by this horribly erroneous statement.
Sorry Roger, but I don't consider one-field-per-screen numeric entries good
usability. It may be the best you can do on the platform, but this was
actually my point. I've seen lots of Palm business applications from many
vendors, small companies like yours, and big companies like IBM, or SAP (for
which I work). All these more or less stay in the "demo" state, because the
usability is horrible.
HandEra, Sony, and Compaq show how you can put more pixels into the same
form factor, thus greatly increasing readability, and the possibilities for
displaying data.
Don't get me wrong, I'm still a Palm evangelist. I just wish that Palm would
get their act together RSN...
Regards,
Andreas Linke
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