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Time To Upgrade Your Palm OS?

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Palm’s biggest challenge with respect to OS 5 may be migrating its sizeable and valuable developer community, which has populated the handheld landscape with Palm devices and applications. Read the editorial at NewsFactor.

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4 Comments

  1. 2002-09-12 6:17 pm
    Anonymous

    About a year ago Palm killed their developer Hardware discounts, I think this is the perfect time to bring it back! The discount was approximately 20% off retail but was limited to a max of 10 of each palm model per development company. Even if the system is abused and developers buy for their friends it will increase market share.

    If developers don’t have the hardware what is the incentive to develop for that platform especially for programs that will use the new advanced features that are available.

    For example the PalmOS emulator that has been available for ages cannot obviously support InfraRed, so any applications that use IR must be tested on actual hardware devices.

  2. 2002-09-12 8:12 pm
    Anonymous

    Did I miss a big announcement recently? This article is talking about PalmOS 5 like it’s on the cusp of shipping to the markets. Last I understood it was vaporware except to maybe a few big and lucky devs. Has there been a change in the shipping schedule for PalmOS 5 other than ‘as soon as possible when it’s done’ ?

  3. 2002-09-12 9:41 pm
    Anonymous

    PalmOS 5 is done and the golden master has been already sent to the hardware developer/vendors (Palm hardware group, Handspring, Sony, etc.). It’s a waiting game now for when the hardware groups start announcing their PalmOS 5 units.