On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Brian Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Palm dropped the ball IMO when they split their hardware and software > groups apart.
I don't know if that was a cause, or just a symptom of their lack of direction, but Palm has certainly been sinking for years and years now. It used to be all the interesting stuff was getting done on or with the Palm platform, and then it just kind of... stalled out. The Handspring acquisition has only hurt both groups. Then they really started to come apart, when from one month to the next they were either keeping the classic Palm OS, switching to Linux, or switching to Windows CE. Most recently, there has been basically no software development from Palm in years. They're still essentially shipping the same code they were in 2004, with only very minor updates. Their "Palm Desktop" software still isn't "enterprise friendly", and also has issues with Vista. As near as I can tell, Palm is dead, they just seem to be really slow to realize it. I think this is a shame, since the best PDA software I've used has been on the Palm. I just paid to update to DateBk6. I've got a Sony Clie PEG-TG50, which has some of the best design in a handheld I've ever encountered. I'm actually on my second unit, which I bought new-old-stock via eBay. But try and find a decent web browser or SSH client. (There's stuff out there, but it's old, slow, crashes a lot (and on Palm, crash == reboot), and (for the browsers) has trouble with modern sites.) :-( -- Ben _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/