Comments on: Palm Contest Offers a Chance to Celebrate in Las Vegas

Here's a personal favorite:
http://xkcd.com/123/

-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G

I rest my case.

http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/xkcd-speaks-for-me/

http://xkcd.com/386/

Does that mean devs can come up with their own fugly and screwball app UIs (hello, Windows!)?

Does it mean we'll see a fast ramp up in apps from devs and college kidz?

Does it mean vulnerability to gross malware?

What about execution speed? Does it all run through an interpreter? Or can apps be compiled?

What's the least CPU horsepower it would need (I say least because I *still* think Palm would go cheap-ass on us, ala the PDA tarted up to be Foleo)?

What about battery life?

Is there any HWR possible with JavaFX?

Would corporations *want* something JavaFX-based?

OK, *now* we can have some real discussion here.

If Gekko STFUs!

And, geez, hello! What frikkin good is a touchscreen if you're dealing with the same old built-for-mouse-pointer OS underneath it? Go try that touchscreen hp desktop running (god help us all!) Vista. It makes FrankenGarnet seem *good*. This is one of the reasons UMPC failed - not just price - it was XP being underneath it. Even MS recognized what a doofus kludge that was and kept issuing "Origami" custom UIs for it. Hey, look at the new phones that slap a mask on WinMob. Once you leave that pretty face, it's a pig underneath!

PIC just gave me a timeout. So if this gets posted twice, blame Ryan!

I'm beginning to put together puzzle pieces for blog posts.

http://www.nyboxinggym.com/

Last time I was there, it was a good crowd and a nice alternative to drinking your anger away during happy hour.

They probably learned it from their parents who were anarchists in the 1920's.

Hey, I've got security cam vid of you all teary-eyed when you went for your Lexus to get fixed.

Poor emo capitalist pig!

I forgot you money sociopaths don't feel any pain.
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I have high hopes for Palm's announcement, but having THIS as their contest does not do a lot to instill confidence that they've suddenly learned the art of marketing.

OK, throw in a bow as a bonus.

However, based on the initial specs/pics:

1. Apple had better watch out for this 'un, especially with a few hard buttons, OLED screen. If Sony has the foresight to stick a Memory Stick Pro Duo or Micro M2 card slot in this thing it'll be a huge home run (let's be realistic and not assume they will come to their senses and put some kind of SD slot on this thing)

2. ANYTHING that can come close to, equal or surpass the iPod Touch in specs without being tied into iTunes/DRM is a very, very good thing.

3. This is likely the precursor to the PSP 2 and/or possibly even the poor man's successor to Sony's eReader digital book lineup.

4. FM tuner? Only close to a decade after Apple should've put it in the iPod. 'nuff said!

5. Amazon DRM-free MP3 store integration & full drag & drop mass storage compliance without any iTunes proprietary silliness & DRM? SIGN ME UP!

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

Geez, you don't HAVE to put DRM music on it.

B) Yup - Palm said they wanted to do services - Coleman is still on their BoD...

C) It isn't clear how one "tightly integrates" something with the "cool site du jour" so I don't think this is likely; as noted, these sites come (and go?) on a daily basis practically).

D) Yes, even for the prosumer.

E) A must-have. Period.

F) It might be Java-based - I'd hope not, though. Too massive a performance hit compared to C. Note - JavaFX Mobile does not exist at this point in time.

G) Giggle. That's all...just "giggle".

But...

Colligan (I think it was him) said they would be introducing the "platform" "incrementally". Since NONE of the platform has been introduced YET, and assuming he hasn't changed that particular tune, I would NOT expect half of the above to show up by end of year (January 8th is not end-of-year). I certainly do not expect to see anything holdable-in-yer-hand anytime soon and, if that "incremental release" is the way of Palm's future, I would NOT expect next year's CES presentation to be as exciting as we all want.

Palm has had almost half a year to look at the iPhone 2.x and see all the user and developer complaints about it (no cut-and-paste, no skins, no environmental user settings, no programmable alarms, no fast frame buffer access, & etc.). It will be interesting to see if Palm had either the foresight or the flexibility to answer, and give developers yet another modern platform worth supporting.

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