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| Originally Posted by AdamaDBrown Rule number one of handheld computing forums: You don't talk about handhel--oh wait. That's the other thing. Rule number one here is there's no such thing as too much memory.  |
Okay, I gotta give you points for that just for the funny Fight Club reference.
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| Originally Posted by AdamaDBrown There is when you consider the fact that technology keeps advancing. Four years ago there was no EVDO, no UMTS, no VoIP, no SDIO WiFi, no Bluetooth headphones, very little streaming video, and the list goes on. Some of those things have been able to be hacked in, others are still MIA on the Palm platform because the OS just is unable to support it. |
What?
EVDO: in the Treo 700p.
UMTS: no one has tried it yet, but shouldn't be harder than EVDO.
VoIP: MantraGroup has done it.
http://www.mobivoip.net/index.php
SDIO WiFi: Palm refuses to do it (the carriers really don't want WiFi-enabled Treos), but the Zodiac could do this just fine. So could the Zire 71. So clearly, Palm OS can handle it.
Bluetooth Headphones: Softick has done it.
http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/
Streaming Video: MobiTV, man.
Everything you mention can be done on Palm OS. Next!
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| Originally Posted by AdamaDBrown Yes, the market is booming. I'm pleased to find that somebody agrees with me on that point. But at the same time Palm sales have been declining. Unless you think that Palm went from 90% marketshare to 35% because the market tripled in size. |
No, I think those numbers are disingenuous. The 90% marketshare was just PDAs when smartphones didn't exist. The 35% marketshare is also just PDAs
and no smartphones, today. Add Treos into that number, and Palm OS is over 50%. That's a majority.