>From what I've gathered from the conference, if you use the published APIs, your app >is going to run on all the platforms.
I would guess that if you're making hardware for devices, it's going to be a bit more costly to do that. But again, if you stick to the API, I think you'll be in pretty good shape. I suppose, however, to be sure you run on all the devices, you'll want to actually test on all of them, and the future seems to be full of an ever growing panoply of devices. Getting a hold of all of these is going to be expensive. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Max Bian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:21 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: OS 5 == High Development Cost? >From what I have read, the devices based on OS5 will be more diverse. More processors and other hardware choices. This brings me a question: Will it be more difficult to develop apps that run on all or most OS 5 devices? Now, it is relatively easy to have an app run on handspring, palm, sony, handera, ... Will OS 5 make it hard? If there is really a need to test app on each of those hardwares, it will dramatically increases the development costs. That will be really hard for small developers. Will Palm enforce some type of hardware compatibility guidelines for the OS licencees? Thank you. Max ===== http://www.weirdwww.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
