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  • tech0x20 11:54 am on July 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    $Palm doesn’t really have time to still be looking for gaming features. 

    Palm and Sprint entered the fray, directly targeting the iPhone, and didn’t have is gaming ability ducks in a row? I understand that the job postings mentioned in the below links could be to augment the existing capacity, but the timing still indicates a lack of strategy and bad timing.

    I, for some reason, assumed that Palm would actually have had more support for gaming than it does. I also assumed that the webOS SDK would have been open for broad consumption well in advance of the actual product launch–instead, I had to wait until the past week to download the Mojo SDK beta.

    Palm Job Listings Hint at the Future of WebOS – pre|central

    Good News: Palm’s Working on the Pre’s Gaming Problem – Palm pre – Gizmodo.

    webOS SDK bemoaned by iPhone developer as Palm seeks game API engineers – Engadget.

     

  • tech0x20 7:33 am on July 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , palm,   

    How well has the Sprint/Palm campaign against Apple has been doing? 

    Article: Sprint Palm Pre campaign wants bite of Apple’s pie

    Interesting statistics on Sprint’s NOW Network campaign and how well it as performed against the buzz that the iPhone creates.

    Things that I take away from this article:

    • Sprint and Palm are name-dropping Twitter and Facebook to freshen up their image.
    • Aggressive marketing of the Palm Pre helped Palm briefly overtake the iPhone in terms of search buzz generated, ending when the iPhone 3G S was announced.
    • There was only an 11% overlap in those who searched for the Palm Pre vs. those who searched for an iPhone.

    I did notice one of the ad campaign quotes mentioned from the article:

    The Palm Pre does things the iPhone can’t. Run multiple applications at the same time …

    I have to say that using my iPhone as a chronic multitasker, I don’t really notice the fact that I’m only running one application at a time on the iPhone. The context switching is pretty seamless to me, and my usual problem with getting too deep into multitasking on the desktop is that I eventually have more than 21 windows to through. Saving application state is actually much cleaner than having all open applications to switch through. While the Palm Pre has a cleaner way of switching through applications that have been opened that Windows Mobile does, I can imagine being in the Palm Pre card equivalent of hell.

     

  • tech0x20 9:16 pm on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: palm, , sdk   

    Despite my pessism for $PALM’s long term prospects, I’m installing the Mojo SDK 

    (Besides, I can’t afford a Mac at the moment to begin native app development for the iPhone.)

    I guess Palm finally started feeling the pressure of the developers wanting to get their hands on the SDK and opportunity slipping away with other phones stealing the Pre’s thunder.

    One thing I’ve noticed so far is the reliance on Sun’s products and the recommendation to use an Apple product. (Palm, this flattery hardly makes up for the iTunes debacle):

    via Installing the SDK on Windows – webOSdev – Palm:

    • Install Java
      Download and install the latest version of Java. To verify that Java is installed. go to the Command Prompt and type:
      java -version
      If Java is installed, Java version information appears.
    • Install Safari 4
      The Safari browser includes a number of features that are useful for debugging webOS applications.
    • Install VirtualBox
      The Palm Emulator is built on VirtualBox, virtual machine software that you can download free from Sun Microsystems. VirtualBox is required before installing the Mojo SDK.

    By the way, what’s up with these conflicts? What will the webOS SDK update that is used by iTunes, my Garmin Training Center, and Firefox??

    palmconflicts

    Updated: 11:10 pm (EDT)

    I had the following error:

    palmsdkerror_virtualbox

    So I went to update my VirtualBox. The update “link” that the version of VirtualBox that I had installed on my PC provided would not “link” or copy and paste, so I typed a nice long URL in manually. After downloading the 3.0.2 update, I ran it… After 15 minutes of inactivity at 99% complete, I gave up and hard booted my machine to get my network connections back that the earlier stages of the VirtualBox install disconnected (and to get rid of the VirtualBox install process that I could no longer cancel out of).

    This is probably one of the many reasons Apple keeps such a tight control on its software ecosystem, Palm… People may still hate your software if you control all of the components, but at least you have fully earned the disdain of your users, and not put it in the hands of other companies, or even competitors. As I have learned through software development and working for a large company, it doesn’t matter who failed in the food chain. If it breaks your product, you will be blamed.

    One hour later and I have not installed the Mojo SDK.

     

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