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Originally Posted by wallcraft
With an emulator, there is a chance that refresh issues can be addressed in mainstrean builds of common applications.
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But is that what we really want? I don't know of one Windows app with a UI that works on the (touch screen) Pocket PC, and people have tried, and the iLiad is even more "not a desktop" than the Pocket PC is. The iLiad doesn't have the same (or even similar) uses as a desktop, so I don't think we want ports. I think we want apps specifically designed for the platform that'll look nothing like they do on the desktop.
In fact I doubt many will even exist on the desktop. To me a hand-written notes taking app makes no sense at all on a desktop, and an eBook reader (as opposed to an eBook manager) only makes slightly more. Likewise a conventional web browser makes little sense on the iLiad until the display technologies converge and we can have the best of both worlds (LCD and e-paper).
I have to say I also don't want to be limited to what people develop for Linux. I want stuff developed for the iLiad, regardless of OS.
Mark