Palm users should pay more :-)

You probably aren't going to quit using Fitaly on your PalmOS device, unless you replace it with UMPC - you need big pockets for that... On the other hand, many Tablet Fitaly customers will be users who learned to love it on Palm. New customers will take more persuading to use Tablet Fitaly, so they should be charged less than the Palm users!

I own three Palm devices myself. I think I bought Fitaly for the first (one of the PalmPilots), scored the free release for Palm Zire, and Fitaly doesn't seem to work on my WristPDA? (Unless I cheat!!!!)

(It also takes tremendous determination, short sight and a toothpick. That wrist-thing is s m a l l.)

And you could remote-control your PC from the Palm version of Fitaly, but that's a project I still haven't done more than think about! (Forget the Palm emulator on PC - it isn't licensed for application use!)

As for getting onto Microsoft's Web site... do you have to pay for the privilege?? I imagine that Microsoft would want to cover all the alternate input methods - or not at all, since Tablet PC and UMPC have input built-in - that funny two-thumbed double Qwerty wheel arrangement they're touting now, plus speech and handwriting. An alternative-input market indicates that Microsoft's own offerings aren't satisfactory; that isn't a message that they would want to give.

Having said that, I can see a market for Fitaly without typing, only symbols, as an add-on to Microsoft speech, if the matter of synchronisation of speech and tap could be fixed. If I say "Seven stripped grommets" and then tap out "@ $14.75", it's liable not to come out in the right order. So discounted number/symbol-only Fitaly - maybe with the alphabet only typing into a clipboard buffer instead of applications, or into the newly promised FitalyLetris, or limited in some other ways, and with a limited slide repertoire - could be sold as "Tablet PC Puncture Kit".

I have slides from the 1-0 punctuation bar for function keystrokes F1-F10, so we could even make it Functure Kit! No, too geeky!