StyleTap's Palm OS emulator officially coming to iPhone and iPod touch
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave @ May 30th 2008 9:06PM
This in fact could be good for the Palm OS. This will increase the number of people using Palm OS apps and motivate software developers to update their Palm OS programs.
Zap @ May 30th 2008 9:30PM
No.
Why make the apps for the emulator, when devs could make apps for the real deal(the iPhone OS).
New Apps will go to the iPhone OS, old Palm apps will be run on this.
NuShrike @ May 31st 2008 4:45PM
Makes you wonder why Palm didn't take this road for transition years ago.
Once Styletap gets HotSync conduit support in, it's the death knell for Palm and the current Palm OS.
There would be very little reason to hang around for Palm's crappy technical direction, lack of vision and performance to somehow turn 180 degrees just because it HAD a rich history and a large selection of familiar apps.
It's the same as waiting around for Apple to support and put out a new Apple II again.
Leroy Vargas @ May 30th 2008 10:33PM
Real emulator or jailbreak-dependent emulator?
Dan @ May 30th 2008 11:36PM
leroy- the procs aren't similar enough for a real one, regardless you'd have to do some kind of hackery either way.
I absolutely can't wait for this! The combination of the 2 most powerful mobile OSes!! But the real question is will the treo picture messaging programs on it function? I doubt it, but we can always hope!
keithwwalker @ May 31st 2008 1:04AM
I predict that this will be unpredictably popular!
kookoobirdz @ May 31st 2008 12:58PM
Yes! Okay NOW I will buy an iPhone. Srsly, this really is an excellent reason to finally toss my chubby Treo. Hanging onto it for OS reasons was probably irrational inertia to start with, but I've been Palm since last century. I don't like that there's not a cheaper monthly plan available for the iPhone and I still wish it had tactile qwerty and a removable battery, but I'm pretty close to making the jump now.