Thread: Is everybody dumber than me?
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rickh is offline rickh
2007-08-15 , 15:17
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Originally Posted by paulh View Post
I don't know if many anyone makes a living from it, but the Palm platform appears to have some success with commercial software (or so it seems to me).

I've wondered if it was because various websites (such as www.palmgear.com) provide a ready-made marketplace. Plus, some prices are low enough to be very tempting (e.g. you might pay $6 for an memo pad replacement with encryption).

There is a lot of free software too, but I've found that I'm happy to pay for what I want.
The ready-made marketplace is in interesting point. When I was using a Zaurus, I frequented handango.com and was able to find some good, commercial apps that I gladly purchased.

There are currently two apps that I would pay good money ($100+ USD): Something like Textmaker and a good, flexible database program.

At one point I actually contacted Softmaker to see if they would be willing to port Textmaker to the N800, and the answer was no - albeit understandable, considering their other mobile linux offering was based on QT3.

R.
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