Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:48:00 08/03/03
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On August 03, 2003 at 14:24:35, Kevin Ziegler wrote:
>My experience with Pocket Fritz2 on the iPaq 2215 (Windows Mobile 2003 OS) is
>negative - the online features don't work and exiting the program hangs the
>iPaq. My experience with Chessbase support for the Pocket Fritz family is also
>negative - Pocket Fritz lost online functionality when the Pocket PC 2002 OS
>came out and Chessbase's solution was to come out with Pocket Fritz2 with no
>upgrade path rather than post a patch.
I'm sorry to step in, but PalmOS programs generally continue to work fine when
PalmOS evolves.
For example Chess Tiger for PalmOS, designed for PalmOS 4, ran without a single
change on PalmOS 5. And PalmOS 5 was not just an evolution of the OS. It was a
complete rewrite to let the whole platform run on another PROCESSOR!!!
The PalmSource guys even contacted me (I had never been in contact with them
before) to inform me that Chess Tiger ran fine on PalmOS 5 but that I did not
exactly follow the OS guidelines and pointed out a small thing that could make
it incompatible with FUTURE versions of the OS. And it was a minor glitch: a
minor display problem.
In other words they warned me of a potential problem ONE FULL YEAR before the
problem could have affected any customer!
Can you believe that? These guys are so involved in their OS that they do some
debugging for you!
Looks like one company (Palm/PalmSource) cares about compatibility, their
customers and their developpers, while the other one (guess who they are) does
not.
Oh, well...
Christophe
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