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The Palm Operating System
The Palm OS has not evolved significantly since it’s introduction in 1996.
None of the major “PIM” components talk to each other.
The closest this OS comes to “relational” is the Phone Lookup and repeating alarms... jeesh!
Contacts, Calendar, Tasks & Phone (including Call Log) all need to reference each other in the form of a very small, very simple relational database... nothing complicated, nothing large.
What would this accomplish?
Imagine this:
- You’re in Calendar mode in “Day View”, you touch a day or initiate a new event, the cursor blinks and a dialogue box pops open with a drop down list giving you the option of what to enter. You select Contacts and type in the first & last intials, select your contact and it appears in the event.
- Later, your reminder alarm goes off to call this person... with one click (there are 3 or 4 options) you bring up that contact’s records with an integrated call record you can scan to see where you left off with them.
- You select which number you want to dial from the list... instead of getting a popup “dial this number?” it just dials the number... why else would you have clicked on it?
- There are easily 10 more major examples and plenty of other smaller benefits involved in turning the Palm OS into a relational database.
Why doesn’t the Palm OS already do this?
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