Thread: Run 30,000 Palm OS apps on your Nokia Internet Tablet
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2007-11-13 , 20:00
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Originally Posted by JeffElkins View Post
Just a note of caution here.

I'm a former long-time OS/2 user and I've always felt that one of the things that ended up hurting OS/2 was it's ability to seamlessly run Win3.X programs. Why? Because many developers simply wrote for the Microsoft platform, knowing that OS/2 users could run the applications mainly hassle-free.

We need a vibrant developer community and native applications more than emulation software.
I'm with you that I'm not enthousiatically jumping up and down about this, but for a different reason (I feel your OS/2 pain though, brother):

Why are we even wasting time on this? This is Palm Garnet, people. Stone age technology that nobody wants anymore.

Please don't try to convince me that giving up three quarters of my N800's screen is a good deal. Heck, I can't even use the N800's HWR on this thing. Graffiti?? WTF???

If we are going to incorporate Palm's software into the ITs, then this

http://home.cfl.rr.com/genecash/nokia/index.html

is a much more commendable effort, rough at the edges as it may be.

[OS/2 sidenote: Did we ever meet in cyberspace? On Usenet's cooa perchance? Wait... You're not Tim Martin, aren't you? Are you????]