Nokia N810 and other handhelds

[Ben Scott]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> Most think Verizon was afraid of VOIP.

  I'd believe it.  "Carriers locking everything up" again.

> ... developing for the iPhone is tremendously easier than developing
> for a Palm.

  Of course.  PalmOS was developed in 1995 for a computer with a
16-bit microprocessor, 128 KB of RAM, no non-volatile storage, no
memory management unit, and a monochrome display.  The iPhone runs
Unix.

  (I'm not defending PalmOS here.  One of my biggest beefs is that in
2008, the OS on their latest-and-greatest still resembles something
from the Apple ][.)

> They're really against a free culture in software and really bad news for
> isv investors, but who's got the better solution?

  Isn't that how the world ended up running Microsoft Windows?

  Yech.

-- Ben