Comments on: HandMark Releases PocketExpress v2

Looks like a great application and one helluva nice cross-platform subscription-based business model. Way to go HandMark.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
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The GUI looks a lot better. 70 bucks a year is still quite a bit of money, they should consider a "lite" subscription or some such way of subscribing to the services you will really use rather than paying for a bunch of stuff that just takes up RAM.

3 issues I had with the first version (beyond the $70 a year):

* Sucked up a TON of precious RAM, even though it's target seemed to be smartphones (which are built with very little RAM).

* Required signing away of many, many of your rights - basically you are paying Seventy Dollars a year to be spied on and have several companies use your demographic information for some known and unknown purposes. Hardly worth the trouble if you read the stuff they want you to agree to.

* Several users (myself included) reported a "white screen of death" on devices that installed this program. Uninstall brings device back to life. Handmark "support" only responds that "a third party application is interfering"... If you ask them WHAT programs they have found to make their $70/year program fail, they will not write you back... (great support).

If they have gone beyond the improved GUI and addressed the more serious problems with Handmark Express One, then maybe it's worth the trouble of trying to make enough RAM to try it again.

I don't know this program so maybe i'm confusing it's use, but isn't this program just a really expensive RSS-reader with a limited amount of newssources? Who'd buy something like that?