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I will admit that I have often 'railed' at Ed's seemingly heavy-handed bashing of all thisgs Palm, and have occasionally felt the need to argue on their behalf. But in this case, I think Ed is right on the money.
My wife is still using her Palm IIIc pda. Maybe she got lucky and got a good unit (no battery problems - knock on wood), or maybe she just doesn't use it enough to wear it out. The point is, there is very little reason for her to upgrade to a new Palm pda - there is little in the way of OS enhancements to encourage her upgrade. Okay, she is definitely not a power user, but can anyone tell me if Palm has ever managed to get memory card support improved to where it is as seamless as it is on a PPC pda? I sure don't miss all of the third party apps that I needed to use on my Palm M505 in order to get some kind of reasonable usage out of a memory card. As much as I liked my M505 at the time, pda's in general have moved on, at least in the PPC world. However, I'm not sure that I can look at any of the new Palms and see any huge improvements over that M505, other than maybe landscape support, as introduced recently. In fact, I can't say that I have seen any Palm pdas released in the last two years that gave me any pause to consider jumping ship back to Palm. At this point, I feel like my HP 1945 has more to offer than most of the new Palms, and it is approaching two generations old (once the WM5 units come out).
I still keep downloading the latest versions of ShadowPlan as they are released against the possibility of the day I may end up with another Palm OS pda, but those chances appear essentially gone at this point...
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