Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 01:50:50 06/09/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 15:40:43, martin fierz wrote: >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 Not in my experience because (as has been pointed out) the cheapest Palms are a fraction of the cost of the cheapest PocketPCs and a handheld is a discretionary purchase. Certainly from what I see (large consulting firms) a _lot_ of people bought a Palm V series machine some time ago; it does what they want it to do and they see no reason to change until the machine physically breaks down. Those who play chess on it are in a tiny minority ;) The only risk I see is if _all_ PalmOS product lines start to bloat in a misguided attempt to mimic PocketPC; PalmOS's simplicity and robustness, in contrast to desktop machines, is its strength.
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