Comments on: Third-party iPhone applications to arrive Monday

Software companies are bursting at the seams with anticipation of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' Monday keynote, as they get ready to enjoy officially-sanctioned space on the iPhone.

[EvilShin]

Prior to the Palm O/S PDA's really didn't exist. The closest was the apple newton. It was an abysmal failure.

You have to look at where these O/Ses came from. Palm was a tinkerer's device. Much of it's applications are developed by non-professional developers. What an OS created by an imperial corporation would politely refer to as a homebrew, and less politely a rogue app.

What I like about the Palm OS is the surprising number good applications that fly in the face of the big corporate big wigs. Palm inked a deal with adobe that brought about Acrobat for Palm by adobe. This piece of crap required you to install an application on your windows or mac desktop that then converted a pdf to something else that the acrobat for palm can use. When the treos came along, it was useless, since you weren't tethered to the desktop all the time. But others release such neat free ware like PalmPDF which read PDF files directly.

Now before you go all tizzy with the notion the iPhone isn't that way, remember you CAN'T get youtube on the iPhone. That's right, apple simply bribed youtube to create an iPhone version of youtube. (Which not surprisingly does NOT have everything youtube has...)

Of course there are many of you who would point out: you can't get youtube at all on the palm... right? Perhaps not, those happy homebrewers are trying to create a fully flash capable browser for the palm. If they succeed it would allow palm users to actually get youtube on their phones. And that is the missing spark on the iPhone and wince machines. Big corporate types aren't interested in perfecting a video play or a flash browser, when there's a much simpler solution: don't fix the problem, mask it.

Other examples were the core media play came about since the crappy you have to convert it before hotsyncing video player that came with the palm just plain sucked.

Anyways, it's sad, but I bet the Palm Pre will suck the same way the iphone and the wince machines will... Remember to corporate developers the enemy is the homebrew and the evil free thinking it encourages...