On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Robert Purcell wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
>
> I just read that starting January 2002, Handango will be taking 30%
> of the sales for our products! OUCH!! I'm really starting to think
> that it might be time to look for alternative methods for accepting
> payment for my products.
Everyone see that Handango is going to try and grab a bigger piece of
the pie.
They have said that revenues have grown 50%, indicating that they are
doing very well, then, follow that with the need to increase fees from
20 to 30%.
I guess it was only a matter of time before some of these distri
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Bradly J. Barton wrote:
> I am done with this topic, and I would suggest that if you want to continue
> it, there are plenty of message boards out there that will argue with you
> until both devices have undergone several more revisions.
And you will be done with it right up
> "Jeremy Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:62311@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > Well, lets take a quick look at Handspring.
> >
> > 1) I believe there is a device called a Visor Prism...Well, I'll be a
> > monkey's uncle, they DO have color.
> > 2) They have the "VisorPhone"...We
I told you so (Palm).
Over a year ago, I said that Palm would have to bend to market demands
for Color, sound and other features offered by the PocketPC. Many of
the palm supporters and some employees of Palm said I was all wet.
Well, I have just read an article in the news that says that the B
Which is the first version of the PalmOS OS to support bitmap (or
graphic) buttons?
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Raymond Ochoa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm kind of in a rush to get a hold of
> a couple of Visor ROM Images and I was
> wondering if anyone had a copy they
> wouldn't mind sending to me.
>
> I know I have to join the Developer
> Seeding program, and I've done it
> before, but for
I am still having problems with PalmGear in getting registration
reports.
I CAN get email from the palmgear.com domain, when I communicate
with individuals at PalmGear. They too use the palmgear.com domain.
Since, I get other email from PalmGear, that would suggest that this is
not a problem w
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Johnathan Smith wrote:
> Ok. I have two buttons on my form. One is the about
> button and the other on a clear button that I would
> like to make the palm light go on with. If I click on
> the about button the about form popups up. but if I
> click on the clear button (which
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Keith Rollin wrote:
> At 10:01 AM -0500 8/9/01, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
> > > Have you tried the "Standard-English" skin? Surely the "standard" skin
> >> for a IIIc would look like a IIIc, right?
> >> Brian Mathis
> >
> >Uh , yep, you're right. *Sigh*. Sorry for the wild-goo
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, John Kerwin wrote:
> Don't get discouraged Michael. Basically what you have to do is experiment.
> You get what you pay for when you use free tools, you just have to get your
> hands dirt once in a while. Palm programming seems to be going in a
> different way that most othe
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > Ok, say I want a 4 bit grayscale bitmap. How do I save the file so that
> > it is only 4 bit depth?
>
> you dont :)
>
> > If I have to save it as a 16 color bitmap, which color indexes would be
> > used for the 4 colors? Are you saying that if you ha
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Michael S. Davis wrote:
> > > Every copy of Windows contains Paint, which can do it. You must not be
> > > using Windows, or you would already know this. So, you can buy
> > > PaintShopPro, or just
of a descent security algorithm,
> PDA's without a unique serial number can not be used in this environment.
>
> "Michael S. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:59248@palm-dev-forum...
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Richard Burmeister wrote
On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Richard Burmeister wrote:
> > From: manish jaggi
> >
> > ... i have a problem . The hot sync username may be same .
> > The applications doveloped by Mr Ardiri like Dkjr or phire
> > display a unique number on the registration screen that
> > is unique for the device and many
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Michael S. Davis wrote:
> > Problem: Kyocera phones displaying my bitmap as reversed. Black as
> > white and white as black. This is not a backlight problem. I don't
> > actually have a phone to test
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Problem: Kyocera phones displaying my bitmap as reversed. Black as
white and white as black. This is not a backlight problem. I don't
actually have a phone to test this on.
This is a followup to my problem with a Kyocera d
On 18 Jun 2001, Stephen A. Cochran wrote:
>
> Graphical Buttons are fairly new, I found that they didn't display properly on
> pre OS 4.0 Roms.
>
> I used a regular button with no text, sized it the same as a bitmap, and had the
> image in the bitmap. Overlap the two, and you have a graphical but
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > I haven't gotten a sales email since the 30th of May - emails go unanswered.
> > I called this morning and they said they had a problem in the last "couple
> > days" and they were just getting to the backlog today. Hopefully it won't
> > be long now -
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Jimmy Puckett wrote:
> enjoys porn ;-). I am sorry if I offended anyone, but I just feel that you
> are better off knowing what is going on with your programs.
>
> -jimmy
This is my last post on this subject...
It is a fact, that all worthwhile programs will be cracked and
little world
>
> spike
That being the case, THEN, there is yet another reason not to broadcast
it. Presumably, broadcasting this is only to tell everyone that might
not know how to find it.
> >From: "Michael S. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: "Pal
On Thu, 31 May 2001, Mark F Rodriguez wrote:
> Now before I get slammed for posting this, remember we are all developers
> and I trust none of us would use this site to "rip off" another colleague.
> It was posted to educate other developers and give them a chance to decide
> if they want/need to
Check his email address. He is obviously NOT FOR REAL. He just wants
people to respond.
You responded as if you think this was a real support question.
For everyone's sake, lets not fall into his trap by responding to this
garbage. I'm only posting that to try and avoid further responses. I
With the coming of higher resolution screen sizes, I'm wondering if
there is a simple solution to a couple of problems.
1) say you have an application that uses 160x160 bitmap backgrounds.
What is the effect of running the application on the higher
resolution device?
a) does the image get str
On Tue, 8 May 2001, DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
> The way it's done now (correct me Heather) is to create a bitmap family and then
>populate it with bitmaps of different depths. The OS
> then picks the bitmap that matches the current graphics mode to display.
Is the "display mode" selectable by the us
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Dave Lippincott wrote:
> When the unit is reset, the memory is cleaned up.
A fatal crash, normally results in a reset. Are you saying that any
fatal crash will automatically take care of any memory leak problem?
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mi
I have a question about preventing Memory Leaks.
Say I have an application where I allocate memory from the dynamic heap
and then say that before I free up that memory, there is a crash. Since
the application may have a fatal crash before freeing that memory, does
this cause a memory leak?
How
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Bradly J. Barton wrote:
> Please excuse this question if it is easily found.. but I couldn't figure
> out where to begin to look for the answer..
>
> I am exporting some information to a memopad record and I want to make sure
> I don't create something that is too big to fit i
But does this new strategy mean that the only way a developer can get
ROM code, SDK documentation, etc, will be via a paid subscription?
If that is the case, it will mean the end to the palm. 10,000
developers will not subscribe. You will have some large developers sign
up but most won't.
On
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Ken Davidson wrote:
>
> When I read the message, I got the impression that some genius in
> marketing saw 10,000 developers and said, "Imagine the money we could
> make if we charged these people to write code for our platform."
> Shareware and freeware authors make precious l
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dave Lippincott wrote:
> Looks like it could be a quick way for Palm to loose their developer base.
> I tried their developer exchange 'experiment', it was terrible. I think a
> paid support option (with access to Palm trained support engineers) is a
> good idea. It will giv
I wonder how much success NCR will have in it's lawsuit against Palm
and Handspring? They have asked for a jury trial and have asked that
Palm be prevented from making devices.
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Why don't you contact the satellite forms company?
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Subramanian Babu wrote:
> respected sir,
> i have developed a palm application using satellite forms. now i want
> to
> send this to my friend who wants to check how it works. what is the
> minimum requirement for him to get
This may be a stupid question but I have to ask it. I would appreciate
assistance from someone who actually uses grayscales, in this manner.
I have an application that uses Color. The color bitmap is simply a
background bitmap to a form. That's it's sole purpose. There is no
code manipulati
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Aaron Ardiri wrote:
> > There's an excellent body of law in the USA supporting the
> > concept of a "Trade Secret", but in order for it to apply, you have
> > to make a determined attempt to keep your trade secret a secret.
> > Therefore when Aaron published his code, even wit
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Brian Mathis wrote:
> I think the response is correct. Anyone who refers to flash RAM as ROM
> should be corrected. This is a technical industry and correctness in
> terminology is very important.
Ok, you are corrected. The correct terminology is Flash Memory. But
aside
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, DIAMOND JEFF wrote:
> Again, if you see someone repeatedly using the list for basic questions,
> then fine, slam him.
What! Why should anyone be slammed? Why should any discussion on this
list be anything buy civil?
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Richard M. Hartman wrote:
>
> <
> S.V.BADARI NARAYANA MURTHY wrote in message <31992@palm-dev-forum>...
>
> hai all
>
>I want to store "?" into a Char*. if i give like this
>
> Char* temp;
> temp="?";
>
> it will store "\?". why its adding \ before ?. how to
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Borislav Kolev wrote:
> When you get to the point where those two costs collide you may want to
> rethink your licensing strategy and policy. Isn't it strange that the
> biggest software company does not use any "real" protection in their
> products? ;-))
They certainly DO u
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Borislav Kolev wrote:
> It's really simple: since you don't know the hotsync IDs upfront, you can't
> tie the registration codes to them.
>
> Just product a bunch of codes that unlock the product and there you go! Of
> course, any of those will unlock any product out there,
My last (I hope) insertion point problem was traced to clearing a field
by writing "" (NULL) with FldSetText().
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Ken Krugler wrote:
> At 12:00am -0700 00-10-05, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> >Subject: Insertion Point Problem
> >From: Stringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Dat
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> Hmm...very Windowsish...well, you could do a few graphical buttons that
> either update the form objects, or update a window rectangle, etc., by
> moving the objects around or loading a different picture, or whatnot.
> You'd just have to draw the bitma
I think you are missing something here.
It is a fact that not ALL floating point numbers can be represented
precisely in the 64 bits allowed. As a result of this, you will always
have round of errors.
Whenever you display a number in the same precision of the stored value,
you will run the r
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tom Zerucha wrote:
> > > sell them at $500, while Palm has various devices starting at 1/3 the
> > > price.
> >
> > You cannot compare a $500 PocketPC with a 1/3 price b/w machine.
>
> Yes I can. If I am using them to take notes, manage contacts,
> etc. the substance may b
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Jim Schram wrote:
> At 10:21 AM -0700 9/19/00, Michael S. Davis wrote:
> >Everyone is making a serious mistake if the discount MicroSoft and the
> >PocketPC. A year ago Palm had 90+ % of the market share. Now it it
> >75%. What will it be next year an
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Tom Zerucha wrote:
> When you compare the two technologically, they must be pushing it to
> sell them at $500, while Palm has various devices starting at 1/3 the
> price.
You cannot compare a $500 PocketPC with a 1/3 price b/w machine.
> Remembering back to the late '80s,
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Logie Urquhart wrote:
> Hmmm, looking at the requirements of the Embededd Tools. No mention of full
> version of VC or VB.
Look! This is a no brainer. I have NO other VC or VB on my
system. Last night I finally installed my Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 and
it included IDE, C
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Fergal Moran wrote:
> > (Please let me know if you can really get a compiler for $15
> > in the UK -
> No you cannot (not VC/VB anyway) what the original poster may have been
> referring to is the WinCE SDK for VB/VC which is shipped for the price of
> the CD, however you st
Forgot to mention. That also includes Visual Basic as well as Visual
C++.
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Tom McCormick wrote:
> $15 for VB and VC Maybe in the UK, but not in the US. Full versions of
> those products are $480 each. Additionally, back when it was called Win CE
> (I don't know if this
Hate to tell you this but the Embedded Visual Tools for the WinCE and
PocketPC devices is less than $15 in the United States. I got mine for
$6.00 but the price, for shipping only, is currently less than $15.00.
MicroSoft is giving away the developement systems for the PocketPC and
WinCE devic
Why is there a difference for anyone. Doesn't cost them any more to
admit a US person as a non-US person, does it?
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Stringer wrote:
> I know that the non-US developers sometimes feel they are at
> a disadvantage from US developers. But the PalmSource 2000
> pricing scheme
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Brian Mathis wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Michael S. Davis wrote:
> > Have at it. I'm doing it right now. By the way, I'm not using 3.5. I
> > have a IIIc and am using that OS that came with it when it was first
> > released. It's not
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> >So it can browse memos larger than 32k. I created the ~32k file in
> >another application.
> >
> >Mike
>
> I'm going to have to see this for myself...I was told by a support
> engineer with Palm that there was a 4k limitation on this, and I've had
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> >So it can browse memos larger than 32k. I created the ~32k file in
> >another application.
> >
> >Mike
>
> I'm going to have to see this for myself...I was told by a support
> engineer with Palm that there was a 4k limitation on this, and I've had
>
One could just rewrite MemoPad and GIVE it to Palm.
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
>
> >Here is why I am interested. I have an application that I wish to be
> >able to use MemoPad:
> >
> >1) As a means to Import/Export data from and to AND
> >2) Allow writing such data on a PC using
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> Yeah, that's the maximum size of a record in a PalmOS database, but
> you cannot read it in the MemoPad application. The problem is that the
> Memo record is just loaded completely into the field, and thus, you
> cannot open more than a 4k record in the
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> I think it's 4k due to the size of the field object. MemoPad's memos
> are stored as chars, so I'd think that if you made the MemoPad clean
> up some of the field (like clear out 500 bytes every time the amount of
> text in the field reached 4k) you c
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Stringer wrote:
> Though, I admit, there's been a couple of people who've tried to
> use the list as their personal development tutorial service, who were
> using resources they should have been paying for...
>
> Anyway, that's my two cents.
>
> Roger Stringer
> Mariett
This is the conspiracy part of me speaking:
I would not put it past Microsoft to have added something that
deliberately was known to cause ANY palm stuf to quit working. They did
it with lotus, word perfect and many others.
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, C. E. Steuart Dewar wrote:
> > > The specific er
The biggest problem I have found in staying backward compatible is
making sure I don't use too much dynamic heap and/or stack. In fact, I
had to give up on one application because of this.
When you overflow the stack, you get wiere, sometimes difficult problems
to find.
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000,
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Nesse, Rustin wrote:
> >I don't know if this is generic to palm databases or just applicable
> >to MemoPad but I have a problem for which I need a tip.
> >
> >I have an application that saves data to MemoPad. But I would like
> >my application to be able to identify MemoPa
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Adam Wozniak wrote:
> > the paper can be used in two ways.. for good and for "bad" :)
>
> *YAWN*
>
> We've heard all this from security gurus before.
>
> Publish or stop talking about it.
There is a sure fire way to protect software. If it is worth it's salt,
it will no
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Richard Hartman wrote:
>
> Michael S. Davis wrote in message <20190@palm-dev-forum>...
> >
> ...
> >If palm gave out the advance information to everyone that claimed to be
> >a developer, I don't care how much of a non-disclosure agre
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Oliver King-Smith wrote:
> Palm is definitely sharing information with favored developers. They also
> share the information with the press (this was bragged about on PalmPower)
> yesterday. So you are being very naive in believing that everyone gets the
> information at the
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Bob Ebert wrote:
> Fortunately, everyone benefits from Palm staying in business and growing it's
>market, so we can at least align on that!
And besides, developers are not at any disadvantage, if they all get the
information at the same time, even if it is after the release
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, K. Chugh wrote:
>
> Palm would do itself a huge favor by trusting it's developers, retailers, etc.
>enough to let them in on the company plans. Apple does this all the time- they make
>them sign non-disclosure agreements and give them ample time to make any changes to
>th
Bitmap families allow you to have different bitmap depths for different
palms. The OS will load the appropriate bitmap, depending on what the
bitmap level is for a palm.
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Tilo Christ wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I am using Code Warrior Lite w/ the PalmOS SDK 3.5 and the latest
> Con
I am using multi-segment applications with GCC and prc-tools 2.x.
I think I saw somewhere a post about limitations on accessing global
variables when using multi-segment applications. I don't seem to have a
problem but wanted to check out what this was all about.
Is there a link somewhere that
I used to get this error when my application grew beyond the 32k
limit. Then I switched to jump islands and would still get the error if
my crt0 was placed in the wrong location.
I have never seen the error since going to multi-segment code resources.
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Scott Johnson wrote:
I can't for the life of me figure out why they want to make the screen
25% smaller. It could stand to be enlarged a bit. Oh well...
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Bradly J. Barton wrote:
> ZDNet has this story posted today about the new Palms... guess its not a
> rumour anymore.
>
> http://www.zdnet.c
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Ken Krugler wrote:
> >I have been using a variant of the Reg Code scheme to generate keys for
> >registration. I have only recently come up against a problem. For some
> >reason the keys are not working on the Japanese version of the OS. I
> >know there is a difference in
Since I am using prc-tools, I no longer get *.grc file (I think that's
the file I used to see). So how am I to tell the sizes of my individual
code resource segments.
Is there some switch setting that will report the size of these multiple
code resource segments?
Thanks
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I have been using a variant of the Reg Code scheme to generate keys for
registration. I have only recently come up against a problem. For some
reason the keys are not working on the Japanese version of the OS. I
know there is a difference in the character size for US and Japanese
versions but
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Ben Combee wrote:
> > Which brings me to another question. What IS the best method of
> > communication between two applications, where you MUST have global space
> > allocated in each application? One application will call (launch) the
> > 2nd application and get returned
The one thing that would concern me about launching a 2nd application
AND allocating globals would be that there is a fixed amount of dynamic
heap. Since both applications would be sharing that heap (I think),
means that one application that works when launching a 2nd does not
guarantee that a di
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Sam Charette wrote:
> Marketing people know this behaviour well and it is why the vast
> majority of resellers sell goods at 1-5 cents less than a dollar. It
> means they will be able to charge more for something and still have the
> buyer feel that they are getting it for a
> BTW :
> > Don't you feel guilty when you price your products like $xx.95 instead of
> $yy.00 [yy = xx + 1]?
> wouldn't that be $yy.96 not $yy.00 ?
Actually, it would be yy+1.95, if you want to be picky.
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Who cares? I mean as far as the motives go.
It seems perfectly reasonable to wonder about such a thing without there
needing to be some sort of conspiracy.
Trust me, if this was some sort of goverment thing, they would not have
to resort to asking questions here.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Jason Da
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Charles Rezsonya wrote:
> i keep hearing recursion should be avoided whiled devin' up an app. what
> exactly does this mean? don't call too many loops or repeated functions?
> any extra details or specs on what and what not to do would be appriciated.
> brief is ok =)
This
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Frank Nichols wrote:
> Ah ha! A challenge!
That's exactly what I thought.
> /fn
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:40 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> S
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Jim Schram wrote:
> At 1:10 PM -0500 2000/06/21, Rob Graber wrote:
> >I know this is probably a stupid question, but is there any way to increase
> >the size of the dynamic heap? Is it fixed by the Operating System?
>
> Sounds like a perfectly reasonable question to me... :
Is there any way to displya a capital Sigma character or the y-hat
character used in statics, short of creating another font?
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My thoughts:
1) It is a good mental exercise to think about this but is not a big
deal.
2) Anyone who will pirate your s/w would not have purchased it
anyway. So, you are probably not losing anything anyway.
3) If the s/w is worth the effort of the 'warez' person, then it is
probably decent s
I had tried to get in touch with him in the past also. I found a
problem with the program that conflicted with other programs. I wanted
to inform him of it.
My philosophy is that a hack must be relentless in not causing
incompatibilities with other programs. If a program does not work
because
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Ralph Krausse wrote:
> Is there an API to check to see if a creator is already in use on the PP
> unit?
Why not just check for creator anywhere in the world rather than just on
your device? There is a site for that.
> Thanks
> Ralph Krausse
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I am handling the frmUpdateEvent to redraw my form after returning from
a dialog form. My problem is the form now blinks when it is erased and
then redrawn.
The blinking is anoying.
Is there any way to refresh the (a) form, without erasing it first?
How?
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I think I read somewhere that FrmReturnToForm(0) did not work correctly
or something like that, on 3.5. True or not? It seems to work but
wanted to know if there was some gotcha that I overlooked.
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Steve wrote:
> Michael Yam worte:
>
> >I clean up when the
> >user taps t
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sam Charette wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a rather ... unusual error that just began happening. I am
> using UltraLite to create a program and was on track to get it working
> when suddenly the IDE started crashing. The first crash told me that a
> file (that ultrali
A friend told me he is having problems getting a PalmIIIxe from
Palm. He says that Palm is telling him that palm is packordered and
having problems making deliveries because they can't get some part.
Anyone know if Palm is having problem getting parts for their
devices? All devices or just som
Problem:
Say, you touch the screen with the pen; drag the pen to a new
location; then lift the pen. You also want a visible box to show the
selected area. You want the box to be erased and redrawn
as the pen is moved but erased when the pen is lifted.
The problem is that, as the pen moves and
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tom Zerucha wrote:
> I don't think it would be unfair, but the hardware is still costly.
> The "entry" pocket PC is a large percentage of the cost of a real
> laptop, and you aren't going to like working with excel on the small
> screen (and it simultaneously kills anything l
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Jose Rodriguez wrote:
> I can tell you that Microsoft is doing exactly what it needs to get out of the
>catch-22 trap referred to by a previous email.
> The free dev system is very tempting to us developers, to "adapt" our Palm
>applications to WinCE.
> This strategy will d
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Paul A. Dugas wrote:
> Yes, the display degrades *considerably* in direct sunlight but it's
> still usable. "Completely unusable" is a it too harsh. As a previous
> poster commented, I too am seldom in such a position so it's not such
> a big deal to me.
If you are outside
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
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Richard Burmeister wrote:
> From: "Michael S. Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Also, Win2000 is not the min configuration. You can develop on Win95 or
> > Win98 (just can't use the emulator). And you can also use the whole
> > thing
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Dave Lippincott wrote:
> >Market share is gained by providing what users want.
> When my customers ask to pay $500 for a hand held that performs the same
> functionality that they currently get for $150 or when a customer requires
> that they play MP3 files while taking temper
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Bradly J. Barton wrote:
> purpose. I agree with the previous poster, the Pocket PC platform is another
> nice try, but shows just how clueless Microsoft is to what the PDA market is
> all about: Simplicity. People don't want a palm sized laptop, its
> impractical. They want so
On Tue, 9 May 2000, Dave Lippincott wrote:
> >Sounds like another lawsuit in the making.
>
> Why? Palm distributes the GCC compiler, the SDK and CDK for free. Or you
> can buy CodeWarrior. Whats the difference? With CE you still need Visual
> C++ which cost about as much as CodeWarrior (unles
Not going to happen, unless Palm comes out with a larger screen; better
sound, etc. The features of the HP 548 are hard to overlook. And now
you can write programs for FREE.
>
> Steve
>
> "Michael S. Davis" wrote:
>
> > One of the things that makes Palm so attr
One of the things that makes Palm so attractive is the vast number of
applications. Partly due to the low cost of developement s/w.
Microsoft wants the PDA OS market.
Microsoft has always charged big bucks for Development Systems.
Microsoft has always charged big bucks for CE Toolkits.
Now, i
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