StyleTap Officially Coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch
StyleTap today officially confirmed that they plan to bring a version of its StyleTap CrossPlatform environment to the iPhone and the iPod touch platform. The move will essentially bring thousands of Palm OS apps over to the new iPhone platform.
Back in February StyleTap released a video demo of the StyleTap running Palm OS apps on a iPod Touch. The company says they have been overwhelmed by the level of interest and the video has been viewed over 800,000 times.
"The iPhone is one of the hottest new mobile devices out there," said Gregory Sokoloff, CEO of StyleTap Inc., "And the response to our video has convinced us that many, many consumers, and companies, will eagerly jump at the change to buy iPhone devices if they can continue to run their must-have applications."
According to the company technically, StyleTap CrossPlatform is an excellent fit with the iPhone, as the powerful processor and large screen allows applications written for Palm OS devices to run at full speed and at full screen resolution. The iPhone touch screen technology works in a very natural way with mobile applications originally designed for touch screen devices.
Further information about the product, including how it will be marketed and sold, will be made available in early July 2008 according to the company. StyleTap will also be on hands at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, CA from June 9-13, 2008, and will be available to meet with mobile application developers interested in learning more about StyleTap CrossPlatform for the Apple devices.
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RE: Hello Touch
Palm OS apps on iPhone. Sounds really interesting. But I have a lot of initial concerns about such usefulness due to ...
No iPhone stylus and Palm apps designed for one
No SD expansion and apps written for it
No serial connect
No IR (does anyone care?)
Hotsync data
... these are my initial concerns. Hey, if they pull this off in a serious way, then I might jump myself. Get HVGA apps workin full screen in landscape / portrait and I'll be blown away.
Pat Horne
Awesome.
Seriously, I know several folks that will definitely make the jump to an iPhone if they can still use their Palm apps. This will hurt Palm who is already hurting from their dino-OS and nothing stellar in their products.
I'm in
The VPN on the iphone will earn it approval by my companies security group.
I am moving to iPhone 2.0.
RE: I'm in
In the Spirit of Umoja,
Ronin
RE: I'm in
And gee, you know, at some point there will be *iPhone apps* that will offer more features than whatever palmOS legacy apps people are holding onto.
So, goodbye Palm!
RE: I'm in
Pimilco has been teasing Datebk5 users with some new development. iPhone needs a better calendar. Maybe Datebk5 will run on iPhone natively or through a browser.
How many 'taps' will it take?
ST is fine if you do not need to regularly run Palm apps throughout the day. However, if you need to use Palm apps regularly it will seem like a gimmick that gets old very quickly.
RE: How many 'taps' will it take?
I have bought a heap of Palm apps over time. But I scan through my 680 and can't see much that would prevent me from crossing over if I can still access some of the better ones (I'd buy StyleTap just to run eReader until Fictionwise decide to support the iPhone natively)
RE: How many 'taps' will it take?
Counting the days until June 9...
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What do you think, sirs?
RE: How many 'taps' will it take?
I havent heard anything positive about it to be honest... I heard even the Nokia Garnet emulator is having compatibility issues.
Arsenic and old lace
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Couple questions
1. How will pin-point Graffiti gestures & stylus taps translate to jabs with oversized thumbs? The iPhone screen isn't THAT bad!
2. How will d-pad & hard app button translation be done? Via some kind of small DIA area bar? Via MultiTouch finger swipes & gestures?
3. Will apps that absolutely require wireless connectivity (Tryda, Pocket Express etc) work with the Apple TCP/IP stack etc?
4. Will we be able to "partition" off a chunk of the Apple device's internal storage to use as a logical SD slot drive?
In theory, this is certain to be, oh, just one of about six or seven slaps to the face endured by Palm management in the span of about 60 days (BB Bold, BB Thunder, iPhone 2.0, SE Xperia X1, improvements to the Garnet VM on Nokia tablets, Palm stock going from "hold" to "sell", the horrid response online to the 800w "leaks")
But in practice, I can forsee a TON of apps (especially older legacy ones) being broken due to any number of the above issues. Then combine that with the loss of IR, serial connectivity etc. For the average prosumer-type user this is no big deal and ST + 3G iPhone may certainly be the right catalyst to take the last bit of wind out of Garnet's sails. But for companies thinking of deploying a fleet of iPod Touches to employees in the field needing to run some old but expensive custom software....better to just stock up on TX's!
Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p
RE: Couple questions
Aside from StyleTap for PalmOS apps, I'd love to see a Graphaid/Jot/ScreenWrite/TealScript-like gesture text input alternative to the on-screen keyboard for regular iPhone apps.
RE: Couple questions
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/x1?cc=GB,US&lc=en,en
A step above iphone Mike ;-)
Gary
Tech Center Labs
What about the SDK restrictions?
In the case of StyleTap they are emulating Palm OS and they need to call the Palm OS programs and run them. Those programs our considered outside code as far as the license agreement is concerned. Because of this they won't be able to sell their application on the iTunes store which as Apple already stated is the only place they are going to allow users to obtain applications from.
I would like to know if Apple recently changed that policy or if StyleType has some other way around it.
RE: What about the SDK restrictions?
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