Author: martin fierz
Date: 12:40:43 06/08/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 09:21:28, Mark Rawlings wrote: >I think Martin may have been looking more for popularity of the OS, rather than >which would result in a stronger program. Although a program would not be as >strong on either OS compared to Windows on the PC, I'd bet he could write a >Palm-based checkers program that would beat 99%+ of the public! > >Mark > > > >On June 08, 2002 at 01:20:22, Steve Maughan wrote: > >>Martin, >> >>I imagine that currently you'll probably be stuck with the Pocket PC as the >>current Palm OS is severly limited in resource for (moderatly) memory hungry >>programs such as Cake. In the next six months Palm will release OS 5 which will >>be suitable for you app. >> >>Regarding popularity - Palm has a worldwide lead. I've had both (Palm III, iPAQ >>and Palm m515) and I prefer the Palm on the basis of useability, size, weight >>and battery life, although the Pocket PC does have a faster processor (until OS >>5) and hence plays stronger Chess / Checkers. >> >>Just my opinion, >> >>Steve i was indeed mainly interested in relative popularity, now and in the near future. i'd rather write a progam for the palm if 10x more people have a palm, even if it's much more restrictive. if you can write a chess program for it, you can certainly do a checkers program ;-) i was just wondering if microsoft's market power wasn't making everybody go for the pocket PC - which undoubtedly is more attractive for a programmer. aloha martin
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