Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Textware Halts Development of FITALY for PalmOS
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THE COMPETITION" @ 04:00 PM
http://fitaly.com/board/palmfitaly/posts/5082.html
"We are terminating all Palm OS Developments as of today, October 17, 2005. Our future PDA developments will all be based on the Pocket PC operating system. This is where we are likely to meet Palm devices again -- such as the Treo 700w. In Addition, we will concentrate on the Tablet PC and continue to expand our very successful Instant Text business on the PC."
I am sure much of this has to do with Palm continually changing how the soft input panel works with little or no documentation to developers on what the changes are, meaning it is a lot of trial and error and essentially a new code for each and every device Palm puts out. This has been brewing for a while now and seems to have finally come to a head when the same FITALY that had worked on all other Palm brand PalmOS devices would install on a LifeDrive and continually soft reset. In stark contrast to that, I think the Textware team simply has to make sure FITALY works OK on a given Windows Mobile OS (2003, 2003SE, WM5, etc.) and then knows it will work on every device using that platform.
I am sure there are some that will not buy the new T/X because of this. I know if Textware said that they would refuse to support Windows Mobile 5 for similar reasons, I'd be very hard pressed to upgrade. There are some apps that are just key to the device and FITALY is one of those apps for me for which there is no substitute. What about you? Do you have that one or two killer apps that if they stopped development for a next generation platform it would make you seriously consider not upgrading?
"We are terminating all Palm OS Developments as of today, October 17, 2005. Our future PDA developments will all be based on the Pocket PC operating system. This is where we are likely to meet Palm devices again -- such as the Treo 700w. In Addition, we will concentrate on the Tablet PC and continue to expand our very successful Instant Text business on the PC."
I am sure much of this has to do with Palm continually changing how the soft input panel works with little or no documentation to developers on what the changes are, meaning it is a lot of trial and error and essentially a new code for each and every device Palm puts out. This has been brewing for a while now and seems to have finally come to a head when the same FITALY that had worked on all other Palm brand PalmOS devices would install on a LifeDrive and continually soft reset. In stark contrast to that, I think the Textware team simply has to make sure FITALY works OK on a given Windows Mobile OS (2003, 2003SE, WM5, etc.) and then knows it will work on every device using that platform.
I am sure there are some that will not buy the new T/X because of this. I know if Textware said that they would refuse to support Windows Mobile 5 for similar reasons, I'd be very hard pressed to upgrade. There are some apps that are just key to the device and FITALY is one of those apps for me for which there is no substitute. What about you? Do you have that one or two killer apps that if they stopped development for a next generation platform it would make you seriously consider not upgrading?
