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Originally Posted by hacker
Let the third-party developers write those spiffy launcher replacements (like they already do). Let them write the skinning applications (like they already do). Let them do the spiffy customization of the interface. Let the SDK behind the development be powerful enough to allow it, but don't enforce a particular design on users who may not even work that way.
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I agree completely. Keep the "Zen of Palm" simple for people who aren't all super-techy (like my mom who does well with her Zire 71 and it's default launcher.) Our job as uber-geeks is to gently shepherd and guide the normal users towards our level of geekiness, not to ignore their relative inexperience and/or expect them to magically make the leap on their own.
The rest of us can go back to bickering about which third-party launcher is the best and has the most features... We should pay a little extra for added geekiness if we want the platform to survive (by staying simple enough to appeal to the most users) and we can support developers who listen to us (mostly.) If Palm (or whoever) had a super-geeky launcher, would they jump to our requests like some third-party developers do? Or would they ignore us until we get mad on all the forums and turn hostile?