Comments on: StyleTap Now Available for iPhone OS

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E-T

Well, I like the OS. As you probably already know from prior posts over the last 5 years, I'm a military physician. I have found myself in places with virtually no support working in specialties I don't normally work in. For example, in 2002 I was part of a hospital in a bunch of tents in Guam after one of their "super-typhoons" damaged Guam Memorial Hospital. I had to take care of critical ICU patients because I was the only one there at the time. Normally I would be delivering a baby or be doing a hysterectomy. When people are that sick there's not a lot of room for error. I can have it all on my phone instead of relying on a small library to be there. I have about 20 Skyscape apps and a bunch of calculators for IV drips for various drugs, ventilator settings, trauma, etc. They are great when you don't remember the specifics. There are other apps I really like that make my life easier, especially for patient tracking. Most of those that I use are old OS3-5 programs that are available on no other OS. The Skycape apps would cost me over 1.5K$ to get on the iphone. So for me, I'll always have a T2 or a TX if I moved to another platform. It just works for me. The legacy apps are what I use and I want to keep using them. With styletap making them available for me on the iphone I can move past the Centro and the teeny screen. If you get what you want in Web OS then great. Unfortunately for me I can't get ALL I want.

There are a couple apps that aren't acceptable according to the iPhone App store rules. Other than that, it's not any particular app, it's the data in about a half-dozen little apps (the long tail) that I don't want to re-enter on my iPhone or my Android dev phone, plus a bunch of small work-flow habits that I don't want to relearn again.

Competitors to Google search, the iPhone App store, and legacy PalmOS apps, don't realize the value of the "long tail": that mass of search terms and apps that are statistically minuscule, but almost everybody wants one or two of on occasion.

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E-T

Palm Classic could have evolved to 'leader of the pack' but they gave up years ago and anything they do now will be too little too late to make any difference in where the market is going today. Most developers won't waste their time on a company that dropped them cold and has stock that looks like it fell of a cliff.

I don't think I am the only X Palm loyalist that is hard at work upgrading iPhone apps for the Grand Opening of the iPad app store for a company that's been named World's Most Admired Company by Fortune Magazine for three years in a row...
http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/02/news/companies/most_admired_companies.fortune/

Palm OS Made Palm, WebOS Killed them.

Gary
Tech Center Labs

It is not too late to make more for developers to do. Palm will always be your roots. Palm will need to work hard and thoughtfully to regain the people that were inadvertently taken for granted.

An apology will not make it right perhaps more work will.

Thank you for your candid thoughts.

E-T

Many people are taking risks on Palm. Some are risking that they fail, others are risking that Palm succeeds to continue their pioneering spirit of innovation.

E-T
e-tellurian

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The phones they have are crap. This thing would even tempt me.

Heck, I probably would have bought one just to carry around for trips & emergency-type situations had I not jumped ship to the Droid. And not everyone I know that has a pre-paid phone has bad credit or lives paycheck to paycheck. I know plenty of people who basically don't need more than ~30 mins a week of wireless calling (senior citizens, technophobes). In fact, I helped several European corporate types get going with a temporary cell phones while in the USA for an extended 3-week consultancy trip. It was easier & cheaper to buy a few $40 flip phones and a bunch of pre-paid minutes than to pay through the nose for international roaming on their GSM handsets.

Years and years and years ago I said that Palm needed to take what was essentially the T|W tech (OS 4, QWERTY keyboard) and release a DATA-CENTRIC wireless handheld. Basically a web/email data-centric wireless PDA.

Palm could have started by offering it with WWAN + BT on post-paid carrier and then eventually migrated it to someone like Virgin Mobile or MetroPCS or TracFone in an updated WWAN + wi-fi (assuming FrankenGarnet could have supported that combination of radios).
Such a beast could have beaten the Peek (and this device) to the market by years and kept Garnet around almost indefinitely on the lowest of the low-end market. Even the Z22 innards mated to a cheap EDGE radio would've been a perfect device circa 2006-2008 in the pre-paid wireless market.
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And that Samsung Caliber is not interesting, either:
http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/samsung-caliber-metropcs/4505-6454_7-33980357.html

Tech Center Labs

Perhaps this horse is a Western horse that gets up and rides strong even after a beating. Palm is a strong brand created by innovative minds. Just like a Western horse Palm too will get up and ride again. This determination will offer more a chance to ride this Western horse.

One should never beat a horse.

Just a saying i know. Just my thoughts on an old classic Western saying.

Thanks for your thoughts.

E-T
e-tellurian

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