----- Original Message ----- From: "William Chops Westfield" Subject: Re: [OT:] PalmOS vs Pocket PC.....Palm > I also tend to believe that palmos was designed from the start for > handhelds, while pocketpc is a misguided attempt to make your palmtop > look like your windows desktop. *I* don't want my palmtop to look and > work like a windows desktop. (Of course, you might, in which case...) I think that is a key issue. If the app is truly an app appropriate for a PDA, and not merely a portable port of a desktop app, then probably the Palm is the right choice. OTOH, if your customer envisions deploying many handheld apps, you might want to look hard at WinCE in spite of the cost/complexity. A lot of the larger software vendors now have interfaces or portions of their mega-apps on WinCE. If your customer has plans to deploy parts of SAP, for example, on a handheld, then you may want to consider Windoze. Personally, I greatly prefer the Palm for the same reasons that others have already mentioned. But now that Pocket PC's are finally becoming available with reasonable size and battery life, I can't help but wonder whether Palm will be able to hold on. The giant from Redmond has been taking un uncharacteristically long time to penetrate that market, but now that the hardware is there, you have to wonder whether the PalmOS will go the way of OS/2. With Palm splitting up, you have to wonder whether they are already planning for that, too. --McD -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.