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janice and pda's
for a quick blip on janice, see <http://www.electricminds.org/venice/conf/posts.js.vs?cc=2&conf=2&top=25&shac=1&p1=59> (executive summary: janice is a midlist artist. the publishers don't care about midlist. If they lose money on the top hits but make it back on midlist and backlist stuff, as far as they're concerned, that's unacceptable, because they'd prefer the mid and backlist people just die when they are no longer useful) Re: PDAs. My handspring has started getting a flakey bit in the display. I did a look at the market and decided to wait a generation and live with the display. There's a generational shift coming soon -- emergence of bluetooth, among other things -- and I think now is a horrible time to be buying anything PalmOS. the market should be massively different by christmas, maybe January. You're buying into the last generation technology suite. so - if it were me (well, in my case, it IS me), don't buy. If you have to replace, replace as cheap as possible. You can get a low-end, greyscale visor refurbed for under $100. To me, that's almost use-and-toss money. If my handspring DOES die, that's what I'll do. And when the next round of machines come out with integrated bluetooth, then I'll look into this again. Next round should see standardization of expansion slots (handspring's is dead), better screens, faster processors, PalmOS 5 on top end machines, and bluetooth showing up for real. Bluetooth is, to me, one of those seminal changes you want to get in on early. To use my Mac background for similar cases, it's like buying a 68K box once the PowerPC machines came out, or sticking to an ADB box once USB and Firewire arrived. Usually I choose to buy a generation back because it's more cost effective, but at these times, it usually makes sense to buy into the new generation and avoid being backwatered -- and then holding onto it longer.
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