Re: Palm OS is moving to Windows mobile?

DervMan wrote:
> "BC" <callmebc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:1127828503.564451.39540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Humma Kavula wrote:
> >> On 26 Sep 2005 20:50:49 -0700, BC let slip this dark secret:
> >>
> >> >If Palm is your brain, Windows CE (or "Mobile" or whatever
> >> >the f*ck they call it these days) is your brain on drugs.
> >> >It's crap with virtually no good 3rd party software for it.
> >> >It exists soley for all-Microsoft offices, which by
> >> >definition, are really too stupid to be let near pointy
> >> >objects, nevermind PC's.
> >>
> >> You shouldn't post when you're drunk.
> >
> > And you shouldn't post when you have nothing
> > to yank out of ass aside from a trite
> > Hitchhiker's quote.
> >
> > I was being quite serious - computer-related
> > R&D in this country, especially in software,
> > is a joke now. Virtually all of the helpful,
> > interesting software I've run across in recent
> > years has come from overseas or via open
> > source.
>
> [snip]
>
> Dude, it's expensive to do it the old fashioned way "in country." So write
> it elsewhere, using cheaper workers.
>

I was mostly talking about R&D. There is only so much
you can offload to cheap programmers (and primarily
for bloatware crap), but original design doesn't work
this way. And here too is where software development
has degraded badly, especially in consumer software.
Nobody wants to compete with Microsoft, primarily
because of Microsoft's monopolistic tactics which that
braindead DOJ settlement has done squat to fix, as
well as those deep, DEEP pockets. Microsoft itself
hasn't originated anything new in a decade or so. All
of Microsoft's current competition in this country
are less than a handful of diminished legacies from
earlier, more competitive times like WordPerfect, Palm
and Apple. Microsoft's Passport system mostly failed
only because Microsoft's poor security record made too
many people nervous about using or adopting it.
Essentially, though, US companies have abandoned the
consumer software market and left battling Microsoft
to the rest of the world and to open source.

-BC

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