>Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so but..
>From: "Linke, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:03:52 +0200
>> >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.
Are you looking at the same software I am?
What is this "one-field-per-screen numeric entry" business?
Anyway, as said before the driving force behind the amount of usable
data on one screen is the physical screen size, not really pixel count!
A 2.5" by 2.5" screen has natural limts, that don't exist on a 19"
PC monitor.
I'd want more pixels 'cos I can create cuter screens, with better images
and more font choices. But more pixels doesn't allow me to put more
data on the screen, unless I want to hand out magnifying glasses to
my customers.
There's a real human limit to how physically small the characters can
get and still be useful, unless one is producing software for 14yr-olds.
Roger Stringer
Marietta Systems, Inc.
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