>So the time has come to abandon Palm OS and switch to a Windows >mobile >platform as the only stable and consistently viable >development option?
I don't think the solution is to abandon Palm OS, because this is not only Palm specific problem, an interesting article talking about this can be found here : http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/06/why-are-mobile-application-sales.html here is what the author says : "The situation was a big surprise to me. I knew from my time at PalmSource that many Palm OS developers weren't happy with their sales. No shock there. Palm OS hardware sales have been consolidating for a couple of years – Sony withdrew from the market, Handspring and Palm merged, Samsung hasn't done a new Palm OS phone in a long time, and several other Palm OS hardware vendors quietly withdrew from the market. But I had thought it was just a Palm OS problem. Not so, the developers told me. They said application sales on Windows Mobile and Symbian are also stagnant, and although some developers report an increase in sales of RIM applications, the increase is on a very low base, and is not enough to offset the declines elsewhere." But reading the whole document gives much more information. -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
