Re: Bold Suggestion for Nokia
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Originally Posted by johnkzin
(Post 93165)
And my point is: no one has.
What is relevant is: there IS a base of productivity apps out there. There IS a user community out there that is hanging on to that base of applications waiting for a new thing that will support them. If you want to discuss what someone could do, someone could steal both of those things by providing a compatibility layer to fill the gap until that application community ports to a new native platform. Give them a direction, that is solid, usable, and has promise, and you can bet that they'll take it.
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And ultimately, this is where we differ. There IS a base of productivity apps out there, and it's dwindling more each day (why do you think PalmGear is being rolled into PocketGear?), there IS a user community out there, but again, it's dwindling more every day as people desert Palm for better, more advanced devices. And Palm OS is NOT solid (ask a 700p owner), increasingly LESS usable, and has no future. (Or were you talking about Maemo there?)
Ultimately, if one wants Palm apps on Maemo the best bet would be to talk to ACCESS, since they've actually gotten the closest at getting a Palm-compatible layer (GHost) running on an ARM/Linux platform. Maybe someone could convince them to port ACCESS Linux Platform to the tablet platform. |
