> From: David Fedor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Seriously, we have been quite open with information; I gave a "sneak > peek" of Palm OS Cobalt multiple times, literally around the globe, > describing the new infrastructure and what it'd mean for > applications. And we have seeded the simulator and tools to hundreds > of developers under NDA. It isn't appropriate for us to do > everything in public, nor does it make sense to have every developer > working with alpha releases simply because it'd be a waste of most > people's time.
Let's recall the facts. PalmSource shipped Palm OS 6 to licensees in December last year. Nothing was published at that time in the developer seeding area (available only under NDA). In February, PS published the new SDK, and an alpha (0.1) version of the tools required to use it. Licensees are expected to ship first OS 6 devices in summer, so that would give us less than 4 months to port/enhance our apps for a completely rewritten operating system with the biggest changes in the history of Palm OS. Keep in mind that many, if not most, of the currently published applications do NOT work on the Cobalt simulator so there IS a lot of work to do. Of course, if the majority of apps don't work on OS 6, licensees have less incentive to come out with hardware running the new OS. I think that's what the original poster meant with a chicken-and-egg situation. It could have been avoided by giving us more time, seeding us with prerelease versions, and maybe even take in a little bit of feedback during the development process (e.g. about removing several "rarely used" functions). > And we > simultaneously cater to more conservative sets by having PACE do a > great job with compatibility so most well-behaved apps don't need to > change at all. This doesn't become true if it is repeated again and again. Here is a short list of some major apps that currently don't work on the Cobalt simulator (they all work on the T3 simulator): AcidImage 2.9 - changed density of drawing window bitmap, no longer supported SplashPhoto 3.43 - WinInvertRectangleFrame no longer supported Lemmings 4.3 - PalmSim disappears w/o any error message StockManager 4.3 - invalid field length error (loop) ZLauncher 4.01 - ZLauncherDB error SnapperMail 1.9.2 - failed unregistering for notifications, read from 0 Insaniquarium 1.09 - native call can't find DLL, same with Bejeweled 2.23 PalmReader 2.4.2 - not resizable Andreas www.LinkeSOFT.com -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
