At 04:49 PM 1/10/2006, you wrote:
So, do they meet for breakfast or not? :P
I also think making stuff available for just one device is weird. We
needed someone to hack a PRC to be able to use 4GB cards (for example).
Updates for previous devices are planned as their own releases with
resources to develop, integrate, and test. Sometimes we do spot
updates, but we prefer to do a bunch of changes at one time to avoid
the expense of system requalification. We don't have the bandwidth
to continually update and test changes on all of our previous
devices, and some devices cannot be updated easily because they don't
store the system software in flash memory, but instead use masked
ROM. Also, often the developers that worked on a device are now
working on new tasks, so getting changes made requires bring on new
developers and getting them up to speed or delaying new projects.
-- Ben Combee, Senior Software Engineer, Palm, Inc.
"Combee on Palm OS" weblog: http://palmos.combee.net/
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