Although I agree with Tam Hanna that Palm has not been verbose to
developers, I feel confident about the ability to run current and future
68k apps on the future Linux-based PalmOS, much like when ARM processors
were introduced. It's in Palm's own interest that the platform keeps
coming with lots of software, one advantage it has over the PPC outside
the corporate world. Indeed, I develop a freeware, so mine may not be
called a business decision, but I think many niche developers may ignore
the trends and go their way. Like when I attended PalmSource in 2004:
mobility and telephony were the talk of the town (at least among
presentations). But what do I care about Internet connections, my
freeware is used in caves (literally, for surveying). I still get new
users, who buy various new devices, although probably not smartphones,
and I'm sure Palm will not drop such markets, even if they're not the
most glamorous.
Perhaps the fact my daytime job has been to maintain an OS/2 app for a
long time has made me less vulnerable to rumors of an OS that keeps
dying (and resurrecting! :)
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Luc Le Blanc
André Fillipe wrote:
Although I agree with Luc that people are overreacting (actually,
everyone's going hysterical) about the future of PalmOS, I'm in doubt if
the scenario is so optimistic for newcomers. Do you think it is worth
investing time and money on the Garnett platform? Sure, the userbase is
enormous, but where will these users have moved to by the time the
newcomer developers finally deliver, (if they move at all)? (In my case,
I develop end-user stuff, so corporate customers are not all that
interesting.)
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André
On 8/10/06, *Luc Le Blanc* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
Strange: it's dead to you, but it still runs on my devices and I get new
users everyday. Calling for self-fulfilling doom prophecies?
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Luc Le Blanc
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