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Posted by foo fighter on 10-02-2000 09:32 PM:
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Originally posted by argent
I might believe in the end to the Pocket PC shortage "soon", except that the platform has been out for years now... nearly as long as the Palm...
Well, not exactly. In the old days of WinCE, Microsoft bundled the development tools with the larger Windows development environment. The problem was that it cost programmers over $1000 to purchase these tools! Needless to say, not many developers wrote many apps for WinCE, especially not for free. Microsoft has since learned from that fiasco and now makes its Pocket PC development tools available to anyone for free, well, you have to pay for shipping....those cheap bastards!
As for future software for Pocket PCS...I'll put it to you this way, there seems to be much more interest in Pocket PC than there ever was for CE. Regardless of where you stand on the Palm vs. Pocket PC battle, one thing is certain where I'm concerned; I'm thankful we have choices available to us now. It's a far cry from the old Henry Ford era of PDAs when you could buy any PDA you wanted...as long as it was a Palm! =)
Cheers!
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Posted by Gameboy70 on 10-02-2000 10:09 PM:
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It's a far cry from the old Henry Ford era of PDAs when you could buy any PDA you wanted...as long as it was a Palm!
Actually, that's truer of the Netwon than the Palm. Palm was the first PDA to introduce competition into the market, not MS.
Posted by foo fighter on 10-02-2000 10:17 PM:
I'm referring to "Palm" form factor PDAs, not all handheld categories in general. The Newton was a large device (one reason for its demise) that didn't sell well in the market. The current market shows that Palm size handhelds rule. Other devices such as Psion Revos and WinCE clamshell (does anyone even buy these things?) are simply non-starters.
What I meant was, now that the Pocket PC exists, as well as Handspring and Sony, we are no longer tethered to whatever Palm dishes out.
This is an exciting time to be a handheld enthusiast.
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Posted by yucca on 10-03-2000 02:02 AM:
Originally posted by foo fighter
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Other devices such as Psion Revos and WinCE clamshell (does anyone even buy these things?) are simply non-starters.
The HPCs (WinCE clamshells) have not done well for many of the same reasons that WinCE palm sized units failed so badly prior to PocketPC. The HPC concept would do much better if Microsoft would actually try. Even the new HPC 2000 design doesn't cut it. For example, it looks like they forgot to include the new MS Reader which would really be at home on an HPCs large high resolution screen. Worsening the HPCs problem is that too many vendors don't want to see the HPC eat into their laptop sales, and seem to have made only half-hearted attempts - shame on you, HP!! If the HPC's connectivity, interface, application capability and performance get the same kind of treatment that led to the PocketPC, these devices might do very well. Perhaps one or more of the upcoming webpads or the Symbian Crystal class devices will convince Microsoft to do better.
