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Posted by Sarah on April 24, 2008, 9:35 pm
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I want to start devoping for Palm or another PDA/Smartphone, but it
seems like the community is hard to find, compared to 5 years ago. Are
independents still developing for Palm etc.? Can you make any money at
it?
Jim
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Posted by RCC on April 25, 2008, 7:20 am
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>I want to start devoping for Palm or another PDA/Smartphone, but it
>seems like the community is hard to find, compared to 5 years ago. Are
>independents still developing for Palm etc.? Can you make any money at
>it?
>
>Jim
>
Jim
About 5 years ago if you walked down Tottenham Court Road in London
(loads of computer and phone shops) you would see palm devices in every
window. Last week I went looking for headphones to fit my new Palm
Centro - same fit as 680 - and NONE of the stores I tried stocked any
Palm kit at all, apart from a few dusty old ones. Will have to order
online.
The biggest selling Palms here seem to be the 500 and 7xx series, both
Win-doze and not really Palms at all.
I like the Palm OS (hence the Centro) but I fear that commercially it is
just about dead. Developers might exist as a hobby group and one or two
companies might make money (tealscript and dataviz come to mind) but I
doubt there is much scope in the market. You might just strike lucky
with a niche product.
--
Richard C
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Posted by Odysseus on May 18, 2008, 8:29 pm
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> I like the Palm OS (hence the Centro) but I fear that commercially it is
> just about dead.
It really is. The big players are going to be Google and Apple's iPhone.
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Posted by Sarah on May 26, 2008, 4:42 pm
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> > I like the Palm OS (hence the Centro) but I fear that commercially it is=
> > just about dead.
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> It really is. The big players are going to be Google and Apple's iPhone.
What do you mean? I understand the iPhone is a smart PDA but how can
Google be a PDA program?
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Posted by Daniel James on April 25, 2008, 8:12 am
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>, Sarah (who signs herself Jim) wrote:
> Are independents still developing for Palm etc.?
Yes, certainly, though I get the impression that fewer people are
working on Palm apps than in the past.
This is partly because there are a lot of Palm apps out there already
so there are fewer and fewer gaps to fill -- and the Palm platform
hasn't changed so nothing much needs updating.
It's also partly because the Palm platform hasn't changed ... Palm
confused the market a few years ago by telling everyone that PalmOS 5
was at the end of its life and that PalmOS 6 was the New Big Thing and
then not releasing PalmOS 6 (at least, not in a form that any Palm
licensees wanted to build into any products). New Palms today still run
PalmOS 5-point-something, and some of the smartphones run Windows
Mobile.
There is development for Windows Mobile, though, and for Symbian. There
is Java development -- especially for devices that run J2ME (most
phones these days ... you can even run a J2ME runtime on a Palm). There
is development for linux-based devices (the OpenMoko project looks very
interesting -- I hope they produce a device soon).
> Can you make any money at it?
Big question!
You can make money at almost anything if you do it well enough. There
is certainly big money being made in the handheld market, but I don't
know how much of that is being made by "independents". I suspect that
the market is now so saturated with apps that no one of them makes very
much, and that that will remain the case until someone thinks of a new
"must have" application that hasn't been done yet.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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