Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Jan 2009 11:34 UTC
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is filled to the brim with product announcements and new useful (and useless) gadgets, but some stand out more than others. One item that topped the headlines the past few days is Palm's announcement of its brand new operating system.
Permalink for comment 342843
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2008-11-18
The point is its not the apps that matters, its the functions you'd like from these apps. What I'm trying to say: All apps do right now is they're a compilation of different functions + a user interface to invoke them. This made a lot of sense when the concept was developed, as you couldn't load features on demand or were restricted by resources.
What I'm thinking is the future is a different model. In my opinion Palm is moving in this direction: Every app will publish a data model and be extensible, so that anyone can integrate their data and manipulate it. Of course some security should be applied, but the point is in order to use some specific editing feature you won't switch the model or the app entirely, just something similar to a plugin.
Huge apps, which claim to do everything the user wants are what prevents choice.