I really hope the Palm OS does not become the OS/2 of decade. Admittedly, I too dumped it in favour of WM, but that was driven by what HP was doing with hardware and what Palm was not doing. Still, tehPalm OS was more stable (and smaller) than WM and that's a generation back against Windows.
I think cell phones must have had these poor guys thinking they were dead in the water. They seemed to keep missing on features and convergence while phones just leapt ahead over Palm's old stalwarts.
Still there is a lot of ground to cover in the PDA field. It's nice that I can now listen to music and work on a spreadsheet or document at the same time while my daybook tells me I'm running behind. It's getting there. Better network access, a really good GIS (that is yet to come) and even a few simple things like a sync system that deals with the fact that most of us interact with a number of computers throughout the day and not just a PDA and a single other unit. Why can't these machines all talk behind my back and keep me up to date, float other people's daybooks, know where they are and remember what is on what SD card?
Oh, while I'm at it, on the hardware side, where's the universal power input, that'll take anyone's juice including the aux battery pack in my case? And another thing, after 20 bloody years of R&D you still can't make a screen that needs to wear a condom or it will be ruined by a speck of dust under the stylus -- you've got to be kidding!
I'm trying to be nice here, I'm not asking for the moon, like making the device a central personal processor that has distributed components, like the wireless 80 gig HD in my pocket (leave it alone, I'm not glad to see you), the wireless microphone under my lapel, they little camera that uploads to it, finger-tipped mouse, optional 6 inch wireless screen, and such. Yeah, a much more wearlable design in general...
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I really hope the Palm OS does not become the OS/2 of decade. Admittedly, I too dumped it in favour of WM, but that was driven by what HP was doing with hardware and what Palm was not doing. Still, tehPalm OS was more stable (and smaller) than WM and that's a generation back against Windows.
I think cell phones must have had these poor guys thinking they were dead in the water. They seemed to keep missing on features and convergence while phones just leapt ahead over Palm's old stalwarts.
Still there is a lot of ground to cover in the PDA field. It's nice that I can now listen to music and work on a spreadsheet or document at the same time while my daybook tells me I'm running behind. It's getting there. Better network access, a really good GIS (that is yet to come) and even a few simple things like a sync system that deals with the fact that most of us interact with a number of computers throughout the day and not just a PDA and a single other unit. Why can't these machines all talk behind my back and keep me up to date, float other people's daybooks, know where they are and remember what is on what SD card?
Oh, while I'm at it, on the hardware side, where's the universal power input, that'll take anyone's juice including the aux battery pack in my case? And another thing, after 20 bloody years of R&D you still can't make a screen that needs to wear a condom or it will be ruined by a speck of dust under the stylus -- you've got to be kidding!
I'm trying to be nice here, I'm not asking for the moon, like making the device a central personal processor that has distributed components, like the wireless 80 gig HD in my pocket (leave it alone, I'm not glad to see you), the wireless microphone under my lapel, they little camera that uploads to it, finger-tipped mouse, optional 6 inch wireless screen, and such. Yeah, a much more wearlable design in general...
Don't get me started... Hurry up future!