Mar 3, 2010 - Is Palm Desktop Version 4.2.1 for Mac compatible and will run on a MacBook Pro running. Message 4 of 20. It works well, but I used to stay away from new releases of the Missing Sync until most of the bugs got worked out. Palm Releases Beta Of Desktop Software For Mac Palm has posted on its Web site a public beta version of its Palm Desktop 4.0 software for Apple Computer's Macintosh platform. Since Palm Desktop is no longer in active development, is there a Palm. By MS Outlook for Mac with Office 2011, which should still do the 4-in-1. Taken MS a while to release a trial version after releasing a new Office suite.
That handheld maker Palm announced today that they were no longer going to develop Palm Desktop for the Mac platform, freezing the current version as their final. UPDATE: PalmSource Palm OS Cobalt & Garnet, previously know as Palm OS 6. Cobalt is a new enhanced version of the operating system that is designed to enable the creation of new categories of devices for the communications, enterprise, education and entertainment markets.
PalmSource also announced Palm OS Garnet, an enhanced version of the popular Palm OS 5, designed to accelerate the development of Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones. As a person who depends greatly upon both by Palm and PowerBook I must say that I don’t think this is really a big deal. Although we can’t tell at this point I would be VERY suprised if the ability to sync a Palm with a Mac didn’t continue either from Palm or Apple. Palm Desktop isn’t a great application anyway and any serious user will use iCal/Address Book or Microsoft Entourage. The elimination of Palm Desktop means very little to most who sync a mac and palm. What I would guess will happen is either Apple or Palm will produce a plugin for iSync so that integrates Palm synchronization into iSync better then it is now and we’ll be better off then where we are now!
Apple has their iCal and stuff. Personally, this is the greatest strength of open-source. You never loose anything. Even when a company goes under or looses interest in development, the program still progresses with the help of people that want to take it on and make it better. If Palm Desktop was open-source, it would never die.
This is why GNU/Linux is such a threat to Microsoft. GNU/Linux won’t die like BeOS, Amiga or OS/2. No matter how unpopular Linux gets or how outdated it may get, it just won’t die no matter what MSFT does. It just takes one enterprising programmer to take it up again.
With something proprietary, people are always starting from the beginning. Rather than improving the wheel, they are reinventing it. It’s just interesting to think about how open-source prevents this end-of-life stuff that plagues closed-source software. Well, this could be a sign of reality. There is less reason for companies to support macs. They are loosing market share.
Install base doesn’t matter. If apple can’t take up more market it becomes pointless to develope something for Mac. Furthermore if Apple keaps making products that do the job of 3rd party people then they remove any interest a company might have. Why develope for Mac if Apple will take your idea and run with it. You’d just be wasting money. People complained about MS sucking up companies or taking over ideas and intergrating apps with the OS, but everyone seams to praise apple for doing this.
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In time all programs for OSX and future releases will be only from Apple since no one else will see a point in making anything. You have to have market share, and you have to have 3rd party apps, or in the end you end up as Be.
Maybe OSX will slowly by recycled into a PDA os and be used by MS in 20 years on MS made handhelds, not that that has ever happened to companies that had good product and bad strategy. As the world evolves, people are producing more and more smart phones. Palm has steadfastly avoided putting phone capability into their machines. Have you somehow missed Palm’s acquisition of Handspring?
They have also avoided flash memory. Take a look at the products that are out there, why don’t ya? Besides, even if one of us has our terminology mixed up, I don’t see anything lacking in the Palm handheld memory addon capabilities. People ultimately want to replace too many devices with one or two more convenient ones.
Exit Palm and enter Nokia Just blue tooth iSinc/iCal your new smart phone to your trusty ol Mac and forget undependable inconvenient Palm. 3Com didn’t want them for a reason See ya. Are you just trolling? You’re obviously not paying much attention to the reality of Palm and Palm OS products There have been Palm OS phones for a while now. They’re only increasing in number. Palm OS Cobalt sounds like Windows CE to me.
I’m a palm user, and the best thing about this platform is the simple OS which is able to fit in minimal hardware. Which practically means PDAs with a small form factor. Palm PDAs are much smaller than Windows CE types and fits into my pants pocket without that too much of an unsightly buldge. Now with all this new whizzbang features, its going to be much more hardware demanding and an end to small Palm PDAs i’m afraid. Looks the Zire 71 is going to be the last of the small and elegant Palm PDAs. From now on, its going to be huge multipupose monstrocities.
– Palm’s Desktop, although rarely used, is the place you can view All of your info. ICal and Address Book are nice, but once in a while you need to look at your ToDo lists on a computer, and install additional software, using the desktop app. – Why isn’t the desktop a Cross-Platform Solution?!? Java, or a C cross platform library would push Palm into other OS’s: Linux? – It’s nice to see Palm is so Rich they can give up Millions of potential buyers: 20 Million Mac and 20 Million Linux users. I’d like to see the CTO explain the lost sales to the CEO, because the CTO is Too Lazy to find a Cross Platform solution. – Abandoning the Mac leaves the Mac market as a nice Incubator for potential competitors.
We’ll have to see who steps up to the plate. It’s really hard to know exactly what Palm is going to stop maintaining. A lot of people have pointed out that they use iCal rather than Palm Desktop anyway.
And one or two folks have rightly pointed out that to use iSync to sync with your Palm you need Palm Desktop and the iSync conduit. The question is whether or not Palm- or maybe even Apple- is going to maintain the naked conduit. As of right now, you install the conduit as a part of Palm Desktop, opening an installer for Palm Desktop. It is a component of the Palm Desktop, not a seperate piece of software from Palm. If Palm states they are doing no more work on the Palm Desktop, there is a good chance it includes all of the Palm Desktop, not just the part you don’t use.
As many articles and folks in forums have mentioned, there is the “Missing Sync” product from Mark/Space. But that is a pain- who wants to spend $40 on top of the cost of their new PDA just to sync with their computer? I dunno about being biased, but every time I see a headline like this I think “Ah, another article to trigger a 1000 ‘Mac is dieing’ style posts”. Maybe a better question is: What is keeping Apple from gaining more market share?
I mean, I’v wanted to try OS X ever since it came out, but I don’t still have a Mac (mind you I do plan on getting a PowerBook soon). For me, it’s basically price and lack of many games. Not that Mac hardware is overpriced per se, but rather that you can’t really buy any budget machines. Every Mac comes only with high quality parts. I compared similar Mac and PC machines and the Mac is about the same price (less with the nice educational discount). I guess another factor for me is that I’d really really like to see faster processors. I know that it’s not fair to compare mhz, but even so, I feel the mac processors (well, g4 at any rate) are a tad over priced compared to their intel and amd counterparts.
Any other potential mac customers here who haven’t made the jump? Whats your reason? Every Mac comes only with high quality parts The macs are produced with exact same parts. There is no reason why Apple charge so much.
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In addition, you have to buy another OS every year to keep up with the new software. Furthermore, your old apps will stop working with every update. Buy a mac if you have so much to lose and nothing to gain. I dunno why people buy macs, except they look good, artistic.
The computers are not productive, so many tasks has to be done in multiple steps. It lacks so much development support.
If Apple makes a simple API, mac idiots think that it is the best API on earth. Later you learn that there are so many bugs in it, and many apps have to be delayed because of the bugs. So many clueless people screaming about Macs show that Apple is going to go bankrupt. People don’t use computers for the sake of it.
Apple is not “loosing” (it’s “losing”, chump) market share any more. Eugenia: “Sorry, but this ain’t true.” Sorry Eugenia, you are wrong. “Latest stats (see our archives for links) show Apple below 2% for the first time in their history. They were at around 2.6% last year.” I know you like to post links about this you make sure to inlcude the misleading marketshare figure in your news posts all the time but Apple is NOT loosing users its was just not growing as fast as the rest of the industry. Apple spends just as much on OS development as Microsoft does.
One of the reasons Macs cost so much. As far why you “dunno” why people use Macs you’re ignorant and uninformed. Everything just works. Not in steps as you claim either.
Also updates do not break your apps. Everything just keeps on working. I actually own a Mac so I’m qualified to speak about this.
One of your most uninformed points was the development tools. Apple provides them free of charge at connect.apple.com So once again you don’t know what you’re talking about. Show me another platform that’s Unix based, stable, supported, that I can compile Linux apps on as well as run my commercial apps on. As far as quality $ uptime 10:24 up 27 days, 2:11, 3 users, load averages: 0.90 0.94 0.84 Show me another laptop that can even approach that while being suspended and taken back and forth to work everyday. Before everyone goes flying off the handle, they should remember that PalmSoft, who make the OS and PalmOne, who make Palms, are two seperate companies now. Just because PalmSoft isn’t supporting hotsync on the Mac does mean PalmOne won’t continue to support the Mac.
In fact they have already stated their commitment to continue providing Mac support on Palm devices. They may do this by bundling 3rd party sync software, or produce their own, but I really think that this is a storm in a teacup, although the way it was announced was pretty shabby, and should have been handled a lot more sensitively.
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