Its not that simple. Believe it or not, the majority of hand held systems are sold into the enterprise/industrial markets. Companies tend to standardize on one platform. More often than not it is a PPC and the reasoning goes like this... We already use .NET and VB, just use the platform that continues to support those tools. End of decision, Palm looses. The second reason is the availability of RAD development tools and again Palm looses. They tend to ignore the better features Palm offers as well as the 'free' development tools. ROI is hard to prove until you deploy and by then its too late to switch platforms. Consumers tend to not pay attention to ROI, they want the 'experience'. For shareware, individual and small business developers, free is the keyword.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sander van der Wal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 2:37 AM Subject: Re: Palm OS Developer Su�te - Now Availab le ? > I am curious. Why don't they compare the expected revenue streams from > writing for both platforms? It is wonderfull to have fine tools, but if > nobody buys the resulting products, who cares? > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
