[Design] Smartphone / handheld marketshare data from IDC

[Selva]

Hi bkd, 
My comments in line.
> 
> From: bkd <bkd69@yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:33:29 -0800 (PST)
> To: design@osafoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [Design] Smartphone / handheld marketshare data from IDC
> 
> --- Selva <silver3@gosympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> > # Looks to me like if Chandler is to target
> > smartphone market
> > in the future, then Palm phones should be the first
> > to
> > be addressed and Symbian should be second since they
> > have
> > a slight lead over Palm in EU as I recall from a
> > previous
> > report.
> > 
> > IMO, addressing other smartphone platforms would not
> > be
> > worth the effort at this point. 
> 
> If you're speaking of an actual port of Chandler to
> PDA and phone platforms, it's probably way too
> premature to start speaking of targets and strategies.
> 
> On the other hand, if you're speaking merely of
> passing data from Chandler to PDAs and phones by way
> of syncing, well that should be as simple as getting
> the appropriate syncing agent written and plugged in
> to whatever bit of Chandler is going to be managing
> connections to the repository. See my ChandlerDaemon
> wiki page for my thoughts on that.
> 
> Speaking of which, I need to do up a syncing wiki
> page...
> 
> bkd
> 

I think that to begin with, the easiest way for Chandler
to target smartphone / handheld users is to just provide
synching conduits for the basic componants of desktop 
Chandler to synch with the apps that come preinstalled
on Palm and Symbian smartphones.  BTW, these basic apps are
embeded apps in Read Only Memory.  This not only provides
a fast track for Chandler to wireless markets but it also
saves valuable memory space on these small devices.

Rgds,
Selva