elfs | pre-Pre products prorogated (Reply)

The end of an era

It is with a heavy heart that I discovered today that Staples Office Supplies has decided to discontinue support for all products from Palm prior to the Pre. The discontinued products table at the local brick-and-mortar this afternoon was covered with keyboards, hardcases, and various other ephemera with which one could deck out their archaic Palm T|X (like mine) or Tungsten E (like Omaha's).

I think that's a shame. There still isn't a schedule manager for the iPhone that matches the smarts embedded in the PalmOS DateBook program. The trade-offs between time-event management and network-event management (which a Palm non-phone device doesn't have) in an iPhone apparently make those kinds of smarts difficult. That's why Omaha and I have kept our Palms far past their spoilerage date. I still my use an old Palm V for my alarm clock (and midnight porn-reading repository). There was nothing on the discontined table for the Palm V.

Looks like I'll be using the Internet far into the future to keep my poor life-management devices alive. Staples is no longer a help.