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Originally Posted by Timothy Rapson
Microsoft hasn't done anything that caused me to move from Palm OS to WinMob. My Toshiba offers little special that an iPaq 3600 didn't offer 5 years ago when I was a happy Clie user.
What happened is that Palm OS 6/ Cobalt never arrived. As my PDA use evolved I wanted: multitasking, real fonts, real files, graphics standards. WinMob offers that because it always has. Palm promised that but never delivered it.
The bottom line here is that both POS and WinMob look to me like they are going to ultimately fail in the marketplace. My silly Toshiba has a beautiful screen but once its been off for 20 minutes I have to wait and wait and wait for it to "boot" just like a desktop does. No one is going to want to do that with a phone OS and phones are where all the hardware is going.
I give props to MS that WinMob is as quite stable, but it is still not as stable as Epoc was. My next PDA is more and more likely to be a Nokia of some sort.
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When you mention POS, You talk about a fiction. POS does not exist. THere are only implementations of what is purported to be a mythical OS
An OS would allow developers to write software that works on all devices that support the OS.
Having developed software for the Palm for several years, I can tell you that the fuzzy"desciption"s that Palm gave on the Dynamic Input Area was light years from that goal. THere was no other way to find out what to do than to reverse engineeer(--costly)And there was no suport from Palm whether free nor to be purchased. Nothing approaching the quality of the"support Incidents" that developers can get as part of the MicrosoftISV program. At the end of a long srting of incompatible Palm machines: PalmV LIfeDrive, and now PalmX, we concluded that Palm would never learn to specify an interface. And I decided to exit the Palm market for Fitaly products. It had just become too expensive to develop on a platform whose developers had not learnt the lessons of the seventies: specify first, then Implement. A year after this decision, we are intoducing Fitaly 4 for the pocket PC:
http://www.textware.com/winmobile/fitalymanualmay.htm
On the Palm our time had to be spent on overcoming the imprecisions due to a lack of a proper specification.
On the Pocket PC, we have been able to use the same time inventing! and produce the best Fitaly version ever.
At the end of the weeek we will also introduce a Tablet PC version
Jean Ichbiah