Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Feb 2004 18:34 UTC
The voice, the man, the... machine. That's George Hoffman for you. According to people who have worked with him (including my husband) he is one of the brightest Be, Inc. engineers ever. These days, George works at PalmSource, Inc. as the Director of Applications and Services. In his free time he sings with an (a cappella) vocal band of 4, Hookslide (check out their .wmv promo video clip)! In this interview we talk about PalmOS 6, aka Cobalt. We discuss the architecture of the OS, its capabilities, its market targets and more. Screenshots of Cobalt are included.
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Awesome that a PalmSource (and apparantly former BeOS) employee posted here!
I've used Palm since the Palm III was released, and the reason for a filesystem is incredibly simple:
I have a jpeg on my computer. I wish to view that jpeg on my Palm. So I get a picture viewer and use it's converter app to convert it and download it to the Palm to view.
Great.
Now I just figured out that I want to insert that jpeg into a presentation I have on my Palm. So, now I then need to get back to my computer and re-convert it for the new program, and download it again... and I now have doubles of that same picture.
Bother.
Then I see that it doesn't fit the presentation. I need to edit it. So again, I go back to my computer, get a picture editor and convert the picture for the third time... but this time, I also have to re-upload the picture to the PC, and re-convert it for the presentation software...
AAARGH!
Can't you see, yet?
Applications shouldn't rule. Filetypes should!
BeOS even took this further by having translators, which any application could use. Think of it as a converter, only that it resides on the Palm device itself, and it application independant.
Damnit, BeOS and bfs did everything right. That PalmSource doesn't use it sounds just stupid to me. A Palm today is more powerful than the computers BeOS originally ran on.