Palm Demoing Desktop for OS X
Since Apple released OS X, which requires applications to be re-written or run in a special 'classic' environment, Mac users have been asking for a version of the Palm Desktop that will run under the new OS. Palm Inc. is aware that a good percentage of Palm users are also Macintosh users and has been promising for months that they would release one eventually.
Progress appears to be slow because Palm is only demonstrating an alpha version of the application this week at the Macworld Expo. It is on display in the Business Solutions Center. The company still isn't committing to an exact release date, just saying that it will be available by the end of the year.
The current version of the Palm Desktop will run in the Classic environment but HotSyncing is a slow process.
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RE: Commitment??
You can run any ol' Mac OS 9 app in OS X without modification. To make it run as a *native* application and take advantage of all the wonderful new features, you have to do some work on your application.
Until I upgraded from a Handspring Visor Deluxe to a Palm m505, I had no complaints about this. For some reason, it's not possible to HotSync the 505 while booted up in OS X, I have to restart my computer under OS 9 and sync there.
I'm really looking forward to the native app and all the improvements it'll bring. Hopefully, it'll match the Windows version of Palm desktop feature-wise.
RE: Commitment??
AriB
RE: Commitment??
IF you're on a Mac with a USB port. OSX doesn't yet support (and probably never will support) the ADB connectors on G3 macs like the PowerBook WallStreet and the 266MHz (Beige) MiniTower. You can run X on them, but you can't Hotsync at all without rebooting to OS9. Since I Hotsync every day, this has seriously hampered my OSX experience.
I, for one, think Palm is way off the ball with this one. Windows 2000 support came in a few weeks. Mac OSX users have been waiting since March (and now probably will for another four months, at least). If programs like Freehand are done already, Palm has no excuse (except that they generally do everything at a snail's pace).
RE: Commitment??
RE: Commitment??
RE: Commitment??
1) M$ is not comming out with PocketPC software for the Mac. It's being done by a 3rd party.
2) ADB? No version of a Palm uses ADB connectors. Maybe you mean Serial, in which case you will have to use a USB->serial port connector.
3) You can sync a your Palm under OSX in classic mode. It works somewhat well.
Uptake in general of OS-X?
A friend of mine has OS-X installed, and has mentioned several times that he thinks there's no compelling reason to run it yet.
RE: Commitment??
RE: Commitment I/O-Kit problems
Haev a look around. There are numerous hw products for the Mac, for which no X drivers are available yet. It might well be that the problem is not so much with Palm, but with Apple.
If Palm has choosen the easy way and ported to Carbon (instead of a re-write to Cocoa, which I would favour), that alone should have taken only a matter of weeks. Hence, it must be asumed that there is soething wrong with the hw related stuff.
Thyl Engelhardt
Not palm's fault
Get a PC and stop complaining. :)
RE: Not palm's fault
And the Government has been really good with stoping M$ from doing things, so I'm sure they will glady shut them down for making programmers their jobs.
RE: Not palm's fault
Huh?
What do you call MS Office XP? Or MS Office X, (for the mac), for that matter, less than a year after making people shell out $200-400 for Office 2001??
Sure, you don't HAVE to buy the new upgrades if you get a new OS, but you also don't HAVE to have a new version of palm desktop if you upgrade to OSX.
I do agree that palm is taking way too long to come out with the OSX version, but don't try to say that Microsoft doesn't try to make you buy all new software every time they change windows.
And as far as "just get a pc and stop complaining" goes-
I don't think is the time nor place to start a mac/pc flame war...
RE: Not palm's fault
I guess you have to know a bit more about the APIs of this OS. Apple is not to blame here. -> collect more infos before writing comments like this.
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Commitment??
Where's Palm's commitment here??