 C7x0 owners - pay to upgrade tkc apps or not?? Articles / C760 News Posted by offroadgeek on Aug 25, 2003 - 06:20 PM |
| Have you recently purchased a C7x0 Zaurus, and you've already purchased apps from theKompany for your 5x00 Zaurus? Thinking that you can upgrade your apps to the C7x0 version for free? Think again... Shawn Gordon [1], President of theKompany [2] has taken quite a firm stand on this issue. Essentially, if you purchased any of his software for the 5x00, you are not entitled to a free upgrade, but must purchase a separate copy for your C7x0. Funny thing is, it seems that the newer versions of the apps (ie. tkcPlayer) have been tweaked to explicitily not allow them to be run on a C7x0 Zaurus. Now, I don't know if this is "industry standard", but I know not all companies do this. I've also purchased Project Professional [3], a great piece of software from the people at GRN Consulting [4]. After I purchased my 760, I simply emailed Gary [5] (GRN support), asking if they would be supporting the 7x0 series, and I got a quick response saying that yes they do support the new models. Gary even emailed me the updated .ipk, and a quick note saying that they "have plans to produce a version which supports both the 240x320 and 640 x 480 displays automatically. Therefore ensuring we only have one codeset to be maintained." Now that's a novel idea, it's too bad others don't share that mindset. Saiten has been kind enough to put together a list of alternative apps [6] for the C7x0 series which can be found in our ZWiki pages [7]. Thanks Saiten for putting this together! |
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This article is from Zaurus User Group https://zaurususergroup.org/ The URL for this story is: https://zaurususergroup.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=66 Links in this article [1] [2] http://www.thekompany.com [3] http://www.handango.com/sharp/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=423&jid=5F47EDBFF8BF63B8989964X1D8F4C368&platformId=9&productType=2&productId=26871§ionId=0&catalog=80 [4] http://www.grnconsulting.com [5] [6] http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=TkcAlternatives [7] http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index |