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100th of any currency
I decided to buy a new PDA after 2 years of using my Clie NX60. Prior to that I used Palm Vx for 2 years. This time I decided not to go for a Palm OS model as there were none that was better than the NX60 (don't want a camera). Also Palm OS 6 had no intentions of appearing.
I ended up choosing Sharp's C860 with linux. I have to admit that having linux had its advantages like porting apps and games but there is hardly any pda oriented software for linux. This is where microsoft certainly has an edge.A few years back there were hardly any PPC apps compared to Palm OS. This is not so anymore. I can't see that happening with linux. The Palm OS apps are so nice for a PDA while the apps available for linux are too PC like. Even for a desktop OS linux is far from ready.
Much as I dislike windows it's what runs in my laptop. I havent found a nice game to play bridge in either PalmOS or linux. Palm OS has had its day. Whenever I would ask a developer to port their PPC app to the palm they would complain that programming was a real pain. No multitasking, strange memory limits, bad networking support etc. Till Palmsource can make it easier for developers to develop cross platfom stuff it will die. Microsoft and linux have that advantage with being able to port desktop apps quite easily. Linux has the disadvantage of having hardly any commercial developers.
Laurens does have it right IMO but I think that a new palmos can change things. Lord knows when that will happen.
tovarish
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