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Originally Posted by jonathanchoo
On PPC, a developer will usually come in discuss the problems with users and try to come up with a solution but on most PalmOS community its just whine whine whine... until palmOne has to come out and give out free 128Mb cards.
Its like giving a toy to a toddler to shut them. I can't fault them since many PalmOS power users act like babies. They demanded higher processing power, when it came they complained about the battery life. Palm tried to improve the battery like by releasing a ROM based PDA, and they complain. You just can't win with some of these people.
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I disagree. First, the main reason developers and users are "whining" is because PalmOne is modifying the OS and not releasing API's. That makes it tough to develop third party apps, which is what power users want. Second, the battery issue could have easily been fixed by getting rid of the slider (which they did) alone. The ROM based OS (which was put out my PalmOne and not Palmsource if I heard correctly) would be nice if it wasn't a hastily put together pacthwork of bad design. I could care less about a ROM based OS if the kludges to make it work result in an incompatible device. I think that most people would have been happy with a sliderless T3 (maybe a bit thicker for increased battery life) and wifi. No need really to upgrade the memory since in general Palm apps are quite small. One of the hallmarks of the Palm platform has been its backwards compatibility. Even the upgrade to OS5 wasn't very traumatic (mainly because most of the code is run in an emulator). With this new device, lots of third party apps are having issues, including ridiculous startup/end times as a result of having to copy the files out of flash to RAM using a rather antiquated process (VFS). But why they still continue to put out "flagship" devices without wifi is beyond me.