For a developer porting to this newer version of OS has marginal gain at best from sales point of view. Porting to PPC could double the revenue. Just from a developer's perspective. We can do nothing (or very little) and stay in the 68k mode. Or going through the aerobics with Palm for ???
It's not clear why the changes could not be more evolutionary. It's even less clear the advantages of the overhaul. It is clear that the Palm is waffling about their own OS(s). Not a good message to developers who put up a lot over the years and just find the original processor choice was a mistake in OS 5 and not the choice of API is a mirage too in OS 6. -- Alex "Brad Figler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Alex wrote: > > > Just reading the overview of Cobalt makes me wonder whether it is a good > > time to port to PPC. If one needs to change that much, might as well picking > > up a new platform. And I thought OS 4 to OS 5 was painful. The only thing > > would make this worse is that if I paid for attending DevCon to find this > > out. > > > > PPC is still a more complicated Operating System than PalmOS. The guys > at PalmSource have done a good job in keeping it simple. Jumping to the > PPC platform is probably ten fold the work than porting to the NEW OS. > > Brad > -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
