Ben Combee wrote:
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, that's ok. No problem, but we mostly speak about devices which came
out after the one with the broader software features. Where the software
which makes the feature, actually runs without problems on it. Why does
it happen? The TX hasn't an internal drive, but the drive mode runs fine
with the SD-card. Isn't it a advertisable feature? Doesn't make it the
device unique compared with low-prize PoPC's?
I'm not speaking about high-end here, Palm doesn't make high-end anymore
(proc, RAM, display) . That's something for another post :-)
FAT32, tsss, runs on many older devices now, if I remember correctly,
but not because Palm released the driver... People go and destroy there
devices to have the last cool stuff on it, just because, Palm doesn't
act, isn't going to release stuff for devices where it would be ok, and
warn for all the others. Dmitry increases the available dyn. RAM. What
about Palm, why aren't the go to do it official, and then hopefully more
safe? The could explicit check for every tested device... FHR, does the
same, and uses memory which wasn't used at all before. Without patching
things.
If Palm doesn't act, people go and install hacks. Hacks which might make
certain devices unusable. Palm will have to fix it, as they are can't
prove forbidden user actions. This might become expensive...
I know, you have probably no power to change the decisions of Palm, but
I still wonder about people who make such ones...
Regards
Henk
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