I honestly believe that the driving force behind the decision to add color is the marketing power that it brings. The presumption is that the lack of color support is bad. I have also seen many WinCE (Windows powered) comparsions that always bring up the lack of color on Palm Pilots.
However, in regards to actually doing "work", I don't believe that color would be much of an asset. As for games, I believe that it is a necessary step. My only fear is that the addition of color may start to turn Palm Pilots into expensive Gameboys.
This is not nearly as bad as Divx for several reasons:
1) It doesn't require any additional hardware.
2) There is no comparable market for computer game rentals.
3) You can still by the game.
If a game manufacturer released a game that could only be used in this format that would be tragic. However, this seems to me like a way to try before you buy. I'm not aware of another way other than borrowing a friend's copy of a game to do that. Also, isn't this like shareware with a 3-day time limit.
I just don't see this as being nearly as evil as DIVX.
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I honestly believe that the driving force behind the decision to add color is the marketing power that it brings. The presumption is that the lack of color support is bad. I have also seen many WinCE (Windows powered) comparsions that always bring up the lack of color on Palm Pilots.
However, in regards to actually doing "work", I don't believe that color would be much of an asset. As for games, I believe that it is a necessary step. My only fear is that the addition of color may start to turn Palm Pilots into expensive Gameboys.
This is not nearly as bad as Divx for several reasons:
1) It doesn't require any additional hardware.
2) There is no comparable market for computer game
rentals.
3) You can still by the game.
If a game manufacturer released a game that could only be used in this format that would be tragic. However, this seems to me like a way to try before you buy. I'm not aware of another way other than borrowing a friend's copy of a game to do that. Also, isn't this like shareware with a 3-day time limit.
I just don't see this as being nearly as evil as DIVX.