ttrw wrote:Yes, unfortunately me too. But Palm have only got themselves to blame. They could have got around to releasing the new OS, but they dithered for so long, and then stuck that horrible windows based OS on it. Palm OS 5 was so lovely- very Mac OS9 in my opinion.
I think the Palm will live on in secondhand circles, because of one application- which was simply amazing, Bhajisloops. If you were ever into music production, Bhajis was total magic in the palm of your hand. However, I'm really keen to see what iPhone comes up with.
The only thing I don't like about the Appstore is the fact that you can't demo apps first. This is not good, and apple need to look into this one, and quickly too.
Tom, where did you hear about eDrawings on iPhone? Because as my Solidworks licence was about to run out, I got a call from a Solidworks rep who assured me that SW's was coming to Macintosh. Actually I helped Architosh magazine to do a story on this, but SW's then emphatically denied it- don't you just love corporate companies?? :mad:
Solidworks is a good software, it's just a shame that it uses the hard sell to sell it. I much prefer Tim's gentle approach - he's got a fan forever now!! :D
You can find it in Solidworks Labs. You have to upload through a website. I don't remember the details. My maintenance ran out in Jan, and I'm not going to update for awhile, or at least until I get my Pro/e maintenance taken care of before it expires. I'm pretty sure that I lost access at any rate.
About a month after I bought Solidworks, I got a call from a woman, one of the developers, about purchasing Solidworks. I told her that I had purchased it the month previous mainly for compatibility with my customers, and that I was using Concepts Unlimited on the mac and Pro/e on the PC for my modeling. She asked if I had any questions, and a little while later I got another call from one of/the Vice President of Software Development. He mentioned that he had come over from PTC (Ex-PTC begat Solidworks) a couple of years earlier, and said he would be happy to answer any questions about Pro/e as well. I said no, but that I had a request to be able to convert splines to arcs for use with older CNC equipment. He said that there wasn't a plan for that in Solidworks, but that I should keep my eye out in the not to distant future for a module that would be useful for importing artwork and such. I then mentioned that I was a long term user of the mac, from the 128, and that I would be in favor of a full mac version. He said that I shouldn't give up hope. (I may have mentioned this story earlier here somewhere).
My opinion is that Solidworks, the company, isn't yet committed to the mac. A second opinion is that Snow Leopard could set the performance bar so high that PC apps would pale by comparison (good for VC and Shark, Vectorworks, and NX if it is really going to be native OSX on the mac).
the other tom
