On Wed, 10 May 2000, Michael Yam wrote:
> Good points made about Win CE. I think Compaq is the only vendor shipping a
> ROM upgrade. The other companies are either thinking about it or has
> dropped support. The lesson here is that even if Microsoft "eventually gets
> it right," it'll cost you.
The problem is that "if Microsoft ever gets it right", it will cost
Palm. That is what worries me. I'd rather see Palm be proactive in
maintaining their position.
> >
> > I've seen the mention of color in a PDA mentioned a number of times and I
> > can practically see the sneer that people make whenever it is mentioned.
> > Other than the additional hardware requirements and cost.. what is the
> > problem with this? When the IIIc was announced, people on this forum were
> > practically drooling over it.. now all of a sudden its just a fad that
> users
> > who don't know any better want?
> >
> > I replaced my old PalmPilot Personal with 2MB upgrade card and my wife's
> > PalmPilot Professional (bought in one of those bundles that CodeWarrior
> used
> > to sell) with a pair of IIIc's. For me, the decision was made for the
> > "slickness factor". When I'm on a potential client's site, trying to sell
> > them on the Palm platform and they see my IIIc, with modest use of color
> to
> > make points where needed and the photo album I keep of my kids (including
> my
> > four legged kids), it solidifies my position that Palm is building on its
> > already huge developer and application base. For my wife, it was similar..
> > she carries full color images of some of our non-technical product line in
> > her Palm... and has made some sales for the technical side of things in
> the
> > process. So yes, there is a lot of room for killer apps that require
> color.
> > Killer *business* apps.
> >
> > <Obligatory CE comment>
> > When the subject of CE comes up, the question usually is asked by this
> > prospective client on why Microsoft keeps changing their platform. People
> > who have been watching the PDA market from the outside have seen Microsoft
> > release now a third, radically different, system.. and that it is not
> clear
> > if they are supporting the previous systems at all. (Does software written
> > for previous versions of CE run on the Pocket PC?) I've had a couple
> > customers already ask me what happens to all those machines running CE...
> is
> > Microsoft abandoning them? What if they decide the Pocket PC isn't quite
> it
> > yet, either?
> >
> > Then they see Palm.. and the software originally written for the original
> > Pilot still running on the IIIc.. and that makes their decision for them.
> > Customers looking for a platform in which to invest a large chunk of
> change
> > are not (usually) looking for "slick" at the cost of long term support.
> Cost
> > of ownership and all that.
> > </Obligatory CE comment>
> >
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> >
> >
> >
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