Palm’s Pre currently is US- and CDMA-exclusive – the Palm Eos was expected to be the first GSM device running webOS. Unfortunately, TechCrunch claims the following:
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Our sources in Asia tell us that Palm continues to push development of the device but is far from making a launch decision. “Palm has decided to put the Pixie on hold until they have better visibility into how its current models are selling in the market.”
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Even though I personally think that the Pre is the biggest success Palm has had for quite some time, I am not too sad to see the Eos go. Its non-standard screen resolution (aka different from the Pre’s) would have caused huge eekers for Palm’s already-small developer base (see Nokia’s recent announcement for the correct way).
What do you think?
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It really wouldn’t have caused too much trouble. With javascript/etc applications are easy to design to use a percentage of available space as opposed to a constant number of pixels.
Also, give the whole “already-small developer base” thing a rest — When the iPhone launched, it had even less of a developer base. Its really stupid how people have been counting few available applications as a problem for pre. Any new platform will start out with few applications (though as it turns out, pre can run linux applications with little trouble!)… its just a matter of the developer community building with time or the platform failing.
Medieval puts it quite nicely imo. Programming for it will be a nonissue, and the developer base WILL grow.
Hi Folks,
stay tuned – next report on this one will hit in a jiffy.
All the best
Tam Hanna