On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:20, James Zatorski wrote: > > Is there any other reason you wouldn't want to register a creator code? > > My only reasoning is that if everybody registered a throw-away ID there > would be alot of wasted/unused appIds in the database. (Sooner or > later the IDs will run out.)
Well, with both upper and lower case combinations, there's 52x52x52x52 combinations...or 7,311,616 combinations. Of these, Palm has reserved all lower-case only creators, so 26x26x26x26, or 456,976. So, there's 6,854,640 creator codes available to developers. At the Munich Conference, PalmSource now claims 275,000 developers. Assuming that's accurate, we have just under 25 potential creator codes for each developer. There's between 20 and 30K applications out there, depending on how you count them. So, we've got a ways to go to fill up the namespace. I'm assuming we're using only letters here and no punctuation, though I understand one could use symbols too? At any rate, there's a *lot* of symbols. By the time this is a problem, I likely won't be programming on the Palm Platform any more...;^) -Ken -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
