Re: Further development on Windows?

Jeff Mitchell said the following on 3/12/2009 10:12 AM:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Bert Latamore wrote:
>
> # While we have you around, I wondered if you were doing any new 
> # development on Shadow, and particularly on the Windows version. I keep 
> # hoping for a version that has more of the abilities of the Palm version, 
> # including outlining formats and icon use. Maybe you should take a page 
> # from CESD and consider developing a new multi-platform version of 
> # Shadow. Clearly the two dominant handhelds are the iPhone and 
> # Blackberry, so you want to be on both of those, and an expanded Windows 
> # version should also have a market. I certainly would be happy to buy a 
> # new license for a windows version with functionality closer to that on 
> # the Palm.
>
> 	I'm hoping the Pre will do well, and that they offer a useful 
> development platform for it, and maybe I can start fresh on there (and 
> possibly tie it right into existing Shadow Desktop if they have a sync 
> option.) But it does sound like they're more working the web angle -- 
> phone syncing to web apps, not to desktop apps.
>
> 	Further of course, making a web app version of Shadow would get 
> you data enabled RIMs and iphones (but not native, of course.)
>
> 	The big issue there is.. I think theres a bunch of task manager 
> and project management apps and systems on the web, so it would be an 
> uphill battle against entrenched applications. Possibly. Maybe they're no 
> good, or too big and complex, or tied to other things, or any number of 
> issues.
There are NO outliners of any kind for the Blackberry. There are 
checklist programs galore, but not a single outliner. The closet would 
be IdeaMatrix. And it is text only, no progress, no todo.

You'd have to learn J2Me and really the RIM specific apis to truly 
exploit the machine.

Jeffrey