...for two reasons: IT staff will have had just that many more days to upgrade safety systems, and there are actually fewer people on vacation (at least here in the US) this week of the year than last week. So, the worst is likely behind us...not that the coming weeks will be a picnic.
It's too bad that Softfield is wasting this opportunity to do something actually *interesting*. QVGA screen? Please...how passe. Why not match up an innovative OS/UI with some innovative hardware? I mean, it's not like this current device is going to set the world on fire, so try something creative and maybe establish yourself as a credible player? Otherwise, you're just wasting everyone's time with this lame sub-incrementalist crap.
...for preventing book piracy. While scanning and OCR'ing isn't all that tough, it usually takes a while and is more trouble than your average citizen is willing to go through. Plus, the resulting quality sucks most of the time -- lots of OCR errors and the occasional missing page.
Once digital distribution becomes the norm for books, and it will (just like movies and music), then piracy will take off (just like movies and music). So when we see the major publishers dragging their feet on digital distribution models, you know they think they're staring at their own funerals (just like movies and music). Too bad there aren't any real visionaries in that industry.
For sure. MemoWare has thousands of free ebooks for handhelds.
Reading on a PDA instead of, say, a laptop also doesn't hurt as much when you fall asleep and drop it on the dog laying next to the bed.
At the PalmSource Dev Con, Weblink Wireless and HuneTec were discussing a forthcoming Palm OS-based pager for WW's ReFLEX network. The H-500 looks kind of like a color RIM Blackberry and an iPaq H1910 smushed together, but it runs on Palm OS 5.2. IIRC, it's supposed to be out in late 2003 with an SDK out in June.
Flashy sells, but flashy *alone* also results in the 40% return rate that "flashier" PDA OS's have had to contend with over the years.
I was just at the PalmSource Developer's Conference and the new stuff in OS6 looked pretty good. I doubt that major UI changes will happen, since there's a lot to like about the power of simple interfaces, but I think there will be more flexibility when it comes to the user experience.
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...for two reasons: IT staff will have had just that many more days to upgrade safety systems, and there are actually fewer people on vacation (at least here in the US) this week of the year than last week. So, the worst is likely behind us...not that the coming weeks will be a picnic.
It's too bad that Softfield is wasting this opportunity to do something actually *interesting*. QVGA screen? Please...how passe. Why not match up an innovative OS/UI with some innovative hardware? I mean, it's not like this current device is going to set the world on fire, so try something creative and maybe establish yourself as a credible player? Otherwise, you're just wasting everyone's time with this lame sub-incrementalist crap.
...for preventing book piracy. While scanning and OCR'ing isn't all that tough, it usually takes a while and is more trouble than your average citizen is willing to go through. Plus, the resulting quality sucks most of the time -- lots of OCR errors and the occasional missing page. Once digital distribution becomes the norm for books, and it will (just like movies and music), then piracy will take off (just like movies and music). So when we see the major publishers dragging their feet on digital distribution models, you know they think they're staring at their own funerals (just like movies and music). Too bad there aren't any real visionaries in that industry.
For sure. MemoWare has thousands of free ebooks for handhelds. Reading on a PDA instead of, say, a laptop also doesn't hurt as much when you fall asleep and drop it on the dog laying next to the bed.
At the PalmSource Dev Con, Weblink Wireless and HuneTec were discussing a forthcoming Palm OS-based pager for WW's ReFLEX network. The H-500 looks kind of like a color RIM Blackberry and an iPaq H1910 smushed together, but it runs on Palm OS 5.2. IIRC, it's supposed to be out in late 2003 with an SDK out in June.
Flashy sells, but flashy *alone* also results in the 40% return rate that "flashier" PDA OS's have had to contend with over the years. I was just at the PalmSource Developer's Conference and the new stuff in OS6 looked pretty good. I doubt that major UI changes will happen, since there's a lot to like about the power of simple interfaces, but I think there will be more flexibility when it comes to the user experience.