> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Tom Zerucha wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Frank S. Fejes wrote:
> >
> > > Both said they wanted to get the Palm V since they loved the look, feel,
> > > and workability of the Palm, but both said they needed to store medium
> > > to large text files and lists and that the Palm could not do it without
> > > buying some third party software (which to them was not justifiable
> > > considering they were about to play a bloated $450).
> >
> > ZDOC is free, and you can edit records, and there are other free DOC
> > readers and conversion programs out there. So "cost" is not a valid
> > objection.
>
> This isn't the same. There's sure to be some subset of the Palm users who
> have never used shareware, never used freeware, never downloaded stuff off
> the Internet, never installed third-party software, etc. (A sad fact for
> third-party developers, of course.)
I hear ya. As hard to believe as it may be for folks like us, I *did* meet
people during my consulting work who never installed *anything* on their
Pilots. No games, no add-on software, no OS patches, nothing. When I showed
them some of my add-on software they would stare at me like the Dilbert-PHB
and say something like: "But then there's no more room for addresses, right?"
Bottom line: Even though Palm has proved resistant to add/enhance their
built-in software, they *should* consider increasing the functionality
(besides adding an on-screen contrast control...) to remain competitive
with other small-looking-computer-thingies...
Cheers, Ren�
