I enjoy this CE-PalmOS discussion, too.
I'm relatively new to the Palm world, actually, I've never seen a Palm until
Jan this year.
After I started working on this project, I began to pay attention to those
little things
in stores and on newpaper ads. Generally speaking, CE based devices have
more memory
and better screen display, and they don't cost more that Palms, yet the Palm
seems
out sold them all. There must be some reason that I don't know that make
Palm so
successful, other than those you guys have mentioned, such as battery life,
marketing
strategy, etc. Can somebody give me a little history lesson about Palm?
Shaolin Hu
> -----Original Message-----
>
> I enjoy this CE-PalmOS discussion. We are a software company supporting
> multiple
> protable computing platforms.
>
> Whom ever wrote that dollars are the deciding factor is temporaily
> correct, IBM
> was once there. What drives the commercial market must be real integrated
> solutions. Integration relys on a set of both hardware and software
> components
> and in most cases it is the software which is the driving factor.
> Therefore it's
> those hardware components that best meet the software designers demands
> end up
> winners.
>
> Furtharmore, the spt 1500... is an example of what 3Com needs to maintain
> leadership assuming competitive agreements are in place. The greater
> number of
> hardware integrators such as this can only improve market shares furthar.
>
> Finally, Windows CE by name is a markting gimic leading end users to
> believe its
> a subset to Windows and totally compatable as well, and we all know its
> not. Who
> needs Windows in 5 years anyway, that technology is in the process of
> being
> replaced. It's too bulky and limited.
>
> Pete
>
>
