Fitaly Developer Abandons Palm OS

Ed Hardy · 10-19-2005, 09:48 AM

Textware Solutions, the company that makes the popular Fitaly text input system, has decided to stop all Palm OS development.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/No...m_OS?site=Palm

PlasticMan · 10-19-2005, 02:18 PM

very stupid of palm. they need alot of programers to keep them alive. ignoring them makes no sense.

Unxmully · 10-19-2005, 04:03 PM

I don't speak for him, but I think Jean made his position reasonably clear.

Each time Palm release a new piece of hardware, his company has to reegnineer Fitaly to work with it. He has finite resources and no longer wants to use them to work on a product with such a high cost of maintenance. Reading between the lines, each Palm version has different SIP interfaces and he has to reverse engineer them each time, with little or no assistance from Palm.

Palm have really, really, lost the plot on this one because the T/X looks a nice blend of fetures but without Fitaly, forget it.

Ed Hardy · 10-19-2005, 06:13 PM

It's only in articles that I try to be unbiased. In these comments you get my real opinions.

That's why I don't have a problem saying that I disagree with the way Palm has treated developers recently.

AndyMulhearn, I couldn't agree with you more.