well there's always java + j2me. well there was. i suppose it'll all be windows mobile 5 and .net compact framework now...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Flex Sent: 27 September 2005 09:54 To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: Re: Palm Windows-based?!? I'm looking at palm/palmos dies slowly. They was the leader once, now they are back in the list, MS on the top. It's not about the hardware, I think Palm has made better handhelds than most ppcs I have seen, but it's about the software/os. Having only the free gcc and highly priced CW discouraged lot of people, the poor OS with lot of problems, the need to do stupid things in order to get so simple things working (yeah, I'm reffering to the TONS of hacks, system pathing, arm+68k code, direct register access, the memory segment limits, etc, etc...) just drove people away from it. Then Palm started randomly moving from one solution to another - the jump from OS4 to OS5 which was rather incompatible, the pace objects, the native arm programs, the non existing OS6, the linux, the wince... Hell there is no even a single dev tool that is worth for palmos! Except the dead now codewarrior. PODS is just too funny and even after so much time it still looks and works like a fast put together demo program. I have seen a big shift in the customers too, an year ago nobody mentioned PPC, while now I can't convince them to use palm. Palm should finally decide which one to bet and stop jumping around. Be linux - I'm okay with it, I have seen it working on some device, function rich, opensource, lot of people dedicated to it, free compilers, programs, etc. Or be wince - good dev tools from MS, integrated sql, lot of apps that you need to buy in the palm world..., I just want Palm to select one and go on with it, I'm just tired of incompatibilities, just want to see at least 2 years ahead and to know that palm will not "invent" the next stupid thing that will break the existing ones. Just my 0.02$ PS: Don't get me wrong, I like Palm and want to continue working with it, but they just force the developers and the customers to go find other solutions. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
