no worries...
one of the beautiful things about being in the good graces of a moderator is getting what u wish for...
I agree though...the image has already been posted in previous threads...thus it deserves editing...
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no worries...
one of the beautiful things about being in the good graces of a moderator is getting what u wish for...
I agree though...the image has already been posted in previous threads...thus it deserves editing...
I offered to help out Arn, so when the time was right he offered the responsibility to me...needless to say I accepted. I pretty sure he's had a bunch of people since ask about becoming a moderator, so it may be a dead issue...but u could ask him about helping out. U never really know what other things he needs help with...
Originally posted by eyelikeart
I offered to help out Arn, so when the time was right he offered the responsibility to me...needless to say I accepted. I pretty sure he's had a bunch of people since ask about becoming a moderator, so it may be a dead issue...but u could ask him about helping out. U never really know what other things he needs help with...
ill take the pda posts off ur hands if u dont want em.
I just bought a Kyocera 6035 "SmartPhone" (PCSphone/Palm in one) and tried to find even ONE program that will take a AppleWorks database and translate it into a Palm one. Nothing works. The "HanDBase" desktop that claims to is a total sham--nothing stays formatted and everything comes up gobblygook once ported to the Palm. No one else is even trying.
It would take a lazy afternoon for one Apple software writer to make a stripped down translation plug-in for AppleWorks that would convert an AppleWorks DB--formatting and all--to a .pdb Palm file. Another day at the office for the same guy and a dedicated application to run it would be ready for download. Not rocket science. I'd pay $20 for it in a heartbeat, as would about 100,000 other Mac/Palm users who want to quickly design their own databases in AppleWorks and port them to their Palm. Syncing would be nice, too, but I could live with a read-only version on the Palm, make corrections/additions on my Mac, and just re-porting the whole thing as necessary.
Here is my point--why WON"T Apple do this tiny project--virually no R&D upfront and pure profit on the back-end? If Steve Jobs is so dead-set against getting into the PDA/PIM/Handheld hardware market, why not write software that works with other systems? And seeing that the mini-PC crowd is something of a M$ competitor/enemy, why not work with the Palm OS?
Answers:
1) Palms are too slow and the PDA OS marketshare is dropping like a stone.
2) The declaration of "no PDA" is a smokescreen. Apple will come out with one so much better and faster than Palm, more reliable/more user-friendly/cooler designed than a Pocket PC that Steve will just call it something else. "Hey--I didn't lie... This is NO Palm!...") If people are already paying $500 + for pokey Palms, a gorgeous, sleek Apple product for $599 that is 100% compatable with AppleWorks, FileMaker, and the M$ suite (XP and OSX) would sell--and CERTAINLY fit in the "digital hub" vision of the company. Squeeze in a cool running .13 micron G3 chip, huge memory/HD, FireWire/USB and crush all comers. If Apple makes it truly easy to use, powerful, and (most importantly) classy, executives will want it, as will just about anyone else who waits around for that Dragonball processor to run something.
I don't care if they call it "iWalk," "iSee," "iRun," "iSpot," "iDik&Jane" or whatever. I suspect it will happen, and sooner that we think.
It would take a lazy afternoon for one Apple software writer to make a stripped down translation plug-in for AppleWorks that would convert an AppleWorks DB--formatting and all--to a .pdb Palm file. Another day at the office for the same guy and a dedicated application to run it would be ready for download. Not rocket science. I'd pay $20 for it in a heartbeat, as would about 100,000 other Mac/Palm users who want to quickly design their own databases in AppleWorks and port them to their Palm. Syncing would be nice, too, but I could live with a read-only version on the Palm, make corrections/additions on my Mac, and just re-porting the whole thing as necessary.
Here is my point--why WON"T Apple do this tiny project--virually no R&D upfront and pure profit on the back-end? If Steve Jobs is so dead-set against getting into the PDA/PIM/Handheld hardware market, why not write software that works with other systems? And seeing that the mini-PC crowd is something of a M$ competitor/enemy, why not work with the Palm OS?
Answers:
1) Palms are too slow and the PDA OS marketshare is dropping like a stone.
2) The declaration of "no PDA" is a smokescreen. Apple will come out with one so much better and faster than Palm, more reliable/more user-friendly/cooler designed than a Pocket PC that Steve will just call it something else. "Hey--I didn't lie... This is NO Palm!...") If people are already paying $500 + for pokey Palms, a gorgeous, sleek Apple product for $599 that is 100% compatable with AppleWorks, FileMaker, and the M$ suite (XP and OSX) would sell--and CERTAINLY fit in the "digital hub" vision of the company. Squeeze in a cool running .13 micron G3 chip, huge memory/HD, FireWire/USB and crush all comers. If Apple makes it truly easy to use, powerful, and (most importantly) classy, executives will want it, as will just about anyone else who waits around for that Dragonball processor to run something.
I don't care if they call it "iWalk," "iSee," "iRun," "iSpot," "iDik&Jane" or whatever. I suspect it will happen, and sooner that we think.