Comments on: Rumor: Macromedia Flash Player Coming for the Palm OS

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That would be true if they didn't even begin working on faster processors. But this isn't the case, now is it?

I guess there is no pleasing some people, it seems like they're addicted to bitching. I'm getting sick of it.

I so totally agreed. What do you want in your palm device? everything that your laptop or pc can do into that little handheld? and keep the cost down?

Yeah right, get those stuffs in your D.I.Y and fix one yourself and stop bitching about it.

I agree partly with you. I too am the owner of a m515 and it's good enough. If I need to do more, I use my 3.4 lb Portege notebook which has MS Office, games, and everything else including Macromedia Flash.

I'm not against innovation per se, but the problem is trying to shoehorn a PC into a form factor of a Palm. PocketPC tried this and while the platform is impressive and innovative enough, it isn't enough for me to switch. Yes, it's cool that you can play MP3 files and play a Gameboy emulator at full speed with color on a Jornada, but basically I just use Datebk 4 on my m515. I've tried reading ebooks, but the screen is just too tiny and that goes for PocketPC also.

And for those that lament the lack of quality games, just go and get a Gameboy Advance that blows away the Palm and PocketPC for quality games. I got one for my nephew and almost picked one up for myself and I played Advance Wars.

Out of necessity?

We have better ways to enter our data (using keyboard and mouse) and a much better processing powers to calculate arthimatic and stuff. What Palm tries to be, is when we want to see some data on the go, then we can *immediately* see that data and able to do some simple modify to it. And this is why there is a minimal changes of hardware every since 1996.

If you really need such processing power, get a pocketPC of a laptop instead.

"Quick and Simple"
- Zen of Palm

The plain fact is that, for many customers, gizmos like MP3, flash, etc, are not very useful and they don't understand why they need to pay for them (both in terms of purchase price and, indirectly, through the complexity of the PDA). Remember this: Newton had all the latest features, but the unsophisticated little Palm buried the Newton. For that matter, PPC has all the latest features, but despite the best efforts of some of the biggest computer manufacturers, they are struggling to make any real headway against Palm.

Your suggestion, on its face, looks attractive as a compromise. Certainly, if Palm promised to keep making sensible units like the m500 (for people who don't want useless "features" like color screens, etc), then I will be able to replace my old Vx when it inevitably wears out. If so, then I don't mind if Palm goes off and produces units loaded with all the latest toys for other customers. That's fine, so far as it goes.

The problem your suggestion is that it carries a great deal of commercial risk. Risk in the sense that Palm would need to devote considerable resources and most of its R&D efforts to bringing out the new whiz-bang units. If they don't sell well (and the experience to date with the Newton and the PPC is that they won't), then Palm would have wasted a lot of time and money to produce loss making products.

This is the high road to bankruptcy.

Speaking for myself, I would prefer to see Palm continue to be a successful company, so I think they should think very carefully before taking the approach you advocate.

cool = Completely Otiose and Obviously (another) Loser

Get the disgraceful "paperwhite" screen on the T415 fixed first, then we will talk.

No need for that, I think he's joking. Would a PPC troll start a message with the subject "PPC troll"?

It is difficult to recognize jokes like that however, because there is a never ending army of idiots who actually think the exact same way but then not as a joke.

Scott

As of now, Flash is nothing I need on my Palm. Once Flash or multimedia becomes a necessity ie. datebook, contacts, etc. then it'll be consider. But as of now...Flash is no use to me.

ok according to your reasoning you don't even need a palm, all you nee is a pen and paper, which saves you like let's see ... cheapest palm out there about $100 minus 1 dollar for a pen and about 3 dollars for a really think deck of paper. ok that saves u about $96.

To the guy commenting about courseware: Please elaborate. I'm curious what kind of courseware you're talking about. Aside from the issue of processing power, I'd imagine that the 160x160 resolution could be a major issue.

Scott

I don't believe in the Christian Mythology,

but having said that I agree about luddites. It's OK to have fun even for Atheists and Agnostics.

Imagine the following: You are in an Airport... They have those little workstations where you can plugin your handheld and get access to the world... You log in your computer, get the information you need, edit it and etc. It would be very useful. As well as interfaces to cars and etc...

Life would not be easier if we could exchange data more easily? What if your car could understand your appointments and could help you with the logistics to get faster in the different places you need to be by using the GPS in the car?

And we are not so far away. Battery life is something that can be fixed... Don't you think? The other day I was reading about a paint in Japan that is capable to convert Solar Light in power.

Also, Palms and others handheld are getting very expensive. Today you can buy a Dell notebook, brand new, non refurbished for US$ 900. I bought my Palm 500 for US$ 369 when launched... Compared to the notebook with TFT screen, lots of memory, hard disk, the palm is just a little PC board with an small screen and slow CPU.

Let me know what you think,

Rom

Rememeber, all your Palm are belong to me