Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:10:41 06/08/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 15:40:43, martin fierz wrote: >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 Martin, I periodically see market-share figures for the US and world, and the combined brands of Palm OS devices (including Palm, Sony, Handspring, HandEra) outsell the Pocket PC by a very large margin. Advocates of the Pocket PC like to believe that its market share will someday surpass that of the Palm OS, but if that happens it won't be for quite a few years. (There are numerous checkers programs for each platform already, but I'll bet yours will be the strongest for whichever platform you choose!) PS: There is at least one development tool that claims to permit easy creation of apps for BOTH platforms with ONE code base. I haven't tried it/them. PPS: There are many different development environments for the Palm, just as there are for Windows. There are far fewer for the PPC (I know only of Microsoft's, but I'm not an expert).
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