I'm sorry you don't hear more positive things, David.
Here's one for you - as a developer, it was EXTREMELY helpful to hear
about Palm's upcoming switch of CPUs. Nomatter how much you might hope
everyone can just write to the basic OS calls, I write everything now a
little differently because
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From: "Oliver King-Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: New Palm models
I guess here is my problem. I plan promotions and marketing often 3-4
months ahead. If I can suddenly no longer buy the model I was
They look nice..
How about palm doing a new model with bigger screen, more ram, and longer
battery life :-)
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From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 21 July 2000 14:18
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: New Palm models
I saw this article this
I saw the new Palm model posting. What concerns me is that it appears Palm
has made another model that is incompatible with existing hardware
extensions. The base unit I have been selling is the IIIe. This appears
to be going away (I sure hope the other III's are staying).
The change is
I saw the new Palm model posting.
The rumor, you mean.
The change is alarming not because it is different, but rather, the first
we hear about it is less than one month before the official launch. I
thought Palm was going to get better about keeping developers informed.
First of all, we
Our intent is to tell developers of issues that affect them,
as early as
possible and appropriate and as makes business sense. But not
to share our
product plans from here till 2003, or just satisfy curiosity.
-David Fedor
speaking for myself, and I should probably go home for the
weekend
Granted this is just a rumor and it might be very inaccute. But it does
not make independent developers feel any better. I am certainly not asking
for 3 year advanced look at what Palm is doing, but if this were to happen
in one month as the article says, it would be a nasty shock.
I guess
It all comes down to this. I am not really interested in new products
(well I am but I can be suprised by those), I am interested in knowing if
old products are about to disappear.
Interesting, that's a different perspective than the standard one. Thanks
for clarifying.
If I were in your
From: "Oliver King-Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: New Palm models
I guess here is my problem. I plan promotions and marketing often 3-4
months ahead. If I can suddenly no longer buy the model I was intending
to
use for the promotion because it has disappeared, and I have t
