Re: Scripting Palm Desktop
Re: Scripting Palm Desktop
- Subject: Re: Scripting Palm Desktop
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 18:26:36 -0800
On 3/6/02 2:04 PM, "Brennan" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Are Palm completely oblivious to the rich third-party scripting community that
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has grown up around Entourage? Microsoft abuses its monopoly to get ahead,
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certainly, but when the competition is so slack, it's hardly surprising why
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people just give up resisting and start chasing the dragon.
(What sort of monopoly is MS supposed to have in Macintosh apps?)
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I find myself wondering why, if Applescript is not officially supported in
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Palm Desktop, and there are no promises etc., you haunt this list so
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tantalizingly. I'm getting garbled signals, Chris.
It appears that Chris is keen to fix AS in Palm but that Palm won't actually
hire or pay or assign him to do so. He seems often to be saying that if
enough people told Palm that they wanted it, they just might ask him to do
it. My own feeling is that Palm is oblivious to AS, as you think too, they
won't ever think it matters, and they probably think that they can make a
lot more money by devoting the equivalent resources to the Windows side of
their business instead of giving it to Chris. They're probably right, which
is too bad.
MS doesn't draw the same conclusion - probably because they can make a lot
more money from businesses buying Office for Windows in order to maintain
compatibility with Macs as long as they keep producing an excellent Office
for Mac, than they would if the Windows users bought Word Perfect or Lotus
instead and Macs went elsewhere. I don't know that that's actually true, but
they wouldn't support Office Mac so well if it weren't profitable for them
on the bottom line.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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