No WordSmith for Foleo
August 25th, 2007
I mentioned in a previous post that I was hoping Blue Nomad would port their excellent word processor WordSmith to the Palm Foleo. I got a response from Bobby Genest this morning with some unfortunate news for WordSmith and Foleo fans: Blue Nomad has no plans to bring WordSmith to the Foleo.
Totally makes sense, I suppose. The Foleo comes bundled with DataViz's Documents to Go, so any additional word processors would have to compete with a free and very good program. Reminds me of when Adobe said back in 2003 that Premiere wouldn't be offered for OSX anymore, since Apple was giving away the excellent Final Cut program. (That changed, of course, when the Mac market exploded and Apple switched to Intel processors.)
Also, there will likely be a number of free, lightweight word processors made for the Foleo, if the current software in the Linux world is any indication. Blue Nomad would really be draining away resources on a program that wouldn't have much of a market.
We'll miss you, WordSmith. You're one of the most effecient chunks of code out there. (Great name, too. Rolls off the tongue so much better than DocumentsToGoWord.)
August 25th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
I still use Wordsmith every day on my TX. Great program!
August 27th, 2007 at 2:41 am
And without a desktop sync for the Foleo, Wordsmith would have to handle native documents. It would be a totally different program.
Hotsync conversion is outdated. A word processor these days really has to handle native Word files, or at least RTF files.
August 28th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Wordsmith is brilliant; small footprint and great speed on lower spec devices.
With 400+ MHz, Documents to Go won’t be a problem, though.