1. It's new technology. That means until you fid a salesperson (at CompUSA, RS or whatever) that is as crazy as we are about these hot new products YOU will know more about these then they do! (if they even do know about them) And until there is a Zoomer sold in every 7-11 (well...mainstream stores:-) you'll have to dig around yourself in those out of the way places (like mailorder catalogs or talk with others here) for the new stuff and wait the shipping time. If a store doesn't carry it have you told them that you want one and since they don't have it you'll have to go somewhere else? I think every shop in town knows I want to buy a Zoomer:-)
2. Accessories. Only a few companies who have the vision and the guts to step out on a limb have made products for the Zoomer (thank God some do or we'd have to wait 3 more years before someone made a PDA). These folks deserve our business. But these companies can't do it all, by themselves, those that haven't should be bugged to death until they too start making products for the Zoomer. Off hand I'd say all those PCMCIA modem makers need a call from all of us saying that if they made a Zoomer compatible one they could roll in the bucks. I'm sure we can all think of more companies/products so post their phone numbers here so we all can call them. I love 800#'s:-)
3. Software. I'm glad you found 2 games online. But let's think about this. First, the GEOS Beta SDK has only been out a month (?) and it costs $99 (actually cheap for SDK's). Then you have the time this programmer has put into learning the SDK and their niceness in uploading it so you can have it. Which reminds me: Have you registered this shareware? Have you sent them a 'donation' to encourage them to continue developing? Maybe the programmers are putting out these programs as a 'test'. It's easy enf' to see how many downloads there are, then compare that to how many folks register. Then to compare that to how many actually sent in a 'donation' to encourage the programmer to continue. Looking at all this the programmer can then decide if they are going tocontinue to make shareware or go the retail route...
PDA's are the cutting edge, if we don't like it we can go back to mainstream desktops PC's or we can all help the market grow and help each other out. That's my thoughts,
JohnH201