InfoWorld has a poorly-researched article on PalmOS 5.
InfoWorld has a poorly-researched
article on PalmOS 5.
Sample: “Perhaps most aggravating to Palm users, so-called Hacks, is news
that utilities written by third parties to expand the capabilities of the
current OS will not be supported in OS 5. For example, it is a Hack
utility that allows users to touch the title bar and get a dropdown
menu.” Which, of course, is plenty wrong since tapping the
title bar of an app has dropped down a menu since at least OS 3.5.
Also: “By deploying an ARM-compliant processor, the new OS will also give
Palm the ability to gain a foothold in the cell phone market.” What,
exactly, does ARM have intrinsically to do with cell phones? You can’t just
drop a statement like that with no explanation. I mean, if you’re familiar
with the industry, you can extrapolate that ARM chips are increasingly
becoming the standard for PDA-like devices (in addition to Palm’s 68K-to-ARM
transition, PocketPC has abandoned MIPS to focus on ARM alone). You might,
as an industry wonk, further prognosticate that greater availability may
lead to further expansion of the ARM architecture into cell phone space. (As
it stands now, the only ARM-based cellphones are those that have a PDA
stapled on in some fashion; these are often a dual-core design, with another
whole logic subsystem dedicated to the operation of the phone and the
ARM chip dedicated to the PDA.) But then again, if you’re familiar with this
industry, why are you reading this kind of lousy article?