> However, they could find a ready > market by picking a good platform, freezing its design, and supporting it > for two to three years. This would allow professional third party hardware > developers some reassurance their efforts won't be obsoleted before their > product ships.
I feel your pain. PalmOne has been extremely insensitive to us smaller hardware developers over the years. They've seriously hurt my business by not adequately supporting platforms readily adopted by the commercial and industrial markets. I don't think PalmOne has yet realized that there is commercial/industrial market for their products or at least don't understand the slow adoption rate these companies have. I hope they realize that it can take years for a potential industrial customer to adopt hardware and software into a manufacturing market. The inexpensive Palm units have a great appeal to these types of customers. My advice is to stick to creating hardware that works with the Symbol line of devices. Try to design hardware that can interface multiple unit models with little or no modification. > Palm, Inc., any response??? Good luck getting one. > Like your handhelds. Deplore your attention span. ditto I typically don't like to criticize anyone unless I have at least one idea for a solution. PalmOne could pick 2 or 3 units that would be made available to resellers even after they are discontinued to the general public. They wouldn't have to maintain an inventory, just a min order quantity. Say, 100 units minimum order for manufacturing. Handera was willing to do this until their OS license expired. It was a good arraignment. Another idea would be to sell the license to manufacture a few of the retired designs to a manufacturer that could build to order. This should go for the peripheral case designs as well. What company in their right mind destroys molds with over $100K invested in tooling? ----- Original Message ----- From: "fftlaser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 9:49 PM Subject: Universal Connector????? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
