Quickies: T665C, Sony, OnBoard C, Spain

Silverscreen is good but Megasoft is also good, and so are the others like YiShow, Crs-Launcher, Launcher III, and the delayed Launcher X. Putting it on RAM is okay provided it is not the default launcher, and you can change it to another if you want to. Speaking of apps in RAM, there's a lot of them in Sony's 8 Mb FlashRAM (especially NR-70V-Sample pictures, Remote Control, Clie Demo, etc...) but wonder why you can't access them unless you transferred them to RAM.

And what have they done in that time? They have released model after model, (virtually) each of which has more useless gimmicks than the last. Every few months we are hit with another marketing campaign telling how wonderfull the lastest so-called "feature" is. But what have they achieved? Adding MP3 playback - what's the point of that on a PDA? Strange screen resolutions - tolerable if you write in Chinese, Japanese or Korean (put aside the fact that the problems caused by the code), but not exactly vital for others. This is innovation?

If CLIE is to dominate any market, they will need to consider carefully about what really matters most to users.

They would do better to focus their brainpower on producing handhelds which are smaller, lighter, have longer battery life and bigger screens. They should dump their proprietary expansion medium. Let them also get rid of their software add-ons which compromise the Palm OS's simplicity and stability.

I suppose there will always be people who must have the latest multi-media toy with all the "gee-whiz" gimmicks. (Go to www.writingonyourpalm.net if want to see an example of this.) But those users represent a tiny portion of the market. It would be a pity if their petulant demands led manufacturers to produce models which the vast majority of customers do not want and will not pay for.

"Dump their proprietary storage medium"? Memory stick is not proprietary. Others have adopted it and according to the last report I saw, its much more popular than MMC, and growing rapidly. Get real. Memory stick is not going away and this argument is simply not valid anymore. The same goes for all of your other "arguments".

1) Sony's marketing department never said they are going to dominate, your post started off as a flame, sounds like a flame, feels like a flame.

2) Longer battery life, Bigger screen, Smaller PDA. You are so smart, I thought no one knew this. How are we supposed to make smaller PDAs and have bigger screen, look at all the PDAs today the screen is basically as big as the PDA itself already, that is physically impossible. Also bigger screen and longer battery life, LoL ...

3) And that proprietary expansion medium you talking about has times the market share of the SD card, don't tell me how many companies are supportting SD, all I know is if Sony manages to have 7 times the market share of a so called open standard, then there must be something wrong with the open standard.

This does not only happen on SONY, it's the same for ALL company which lets user leave any format of comment online.