Re: Further development on Windows?

Bert Latamore <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.palm.shadow
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yes, and another benefit for CESD to his approach is that now he has a built-in initial market for Pimlical in Datebk6 users. That, I think, is why he decided to develop on Windows first. I am, as you can imagine, very happy that he did. But of course once he gets Pimlical developed he is going to port to other platforms. I think the Blackberry may be his first target, but he also has a core of Mac users in the group, and he probably will port there as well. At this time the iPhone is not on the list, as I understand it, but of course that could change.

I think you might have a good market for a full featured Windows version of Shadow in your base of Palm users. And definitely if the Blackberry lacks a good outliner you should look at going there. It is a big potential market. I don't know how welcoming Blackberry is of third party developers, however.

 Bert Latamore
Freelance Editorial Consultant




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From: Jeff Mitchell <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:59:03 PM
Subject: Re: [shadow-discuss] Further development on Windows?


On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Bert Latamore wrote:

# So for me at least, I definitely want Shadow local, although if it has 
# an online extension that would let me maintain information between my 
# portable and the Internet (a la Evernote) I would certianly use that as 
# it gives me the benefits of both worlds.

Thats the rub, and something that has always haunted me. ie: CESD 
dodged it.. he did Palm-side only, and now is moving to purely Desktop 
side. Whereas I went for the full thing.. handheld, sync conduit and 
desktop.. twice the development/ maintenance/ support. Nowadays its a 
similar gambit.. desktop + web. Supporting multiple environments is a 
tough thing to do.

(Course, one idea is to make it all a 'web app', and then the 
local version can just be a hidden local webserver that only works for 
your app. ie: Google Gears and so on is one way, but there are others. So 
thats a possibility as well..)

jeff

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