Dear Palm, bite me

Palm posts Beta version of Palm Desktop for OS X from MacSlash. What a hunk of junk. I bet they are wishing they had sold to Apple when Steve Jobs offered to buy it. Now they are dropping like a rock. Didn't they learn anything from Netscape's battle with Microsoft?

Obviously not.

I downloaded it. It worked...once. I even synched to my TiBook through IR (once). Then, it wouldn't open my datafile. What gives?

"It's only beta," you scream! "You have to send in feedback," you continue to yell at me.

Beta should mean feature complete with no show stopper bugs. I've spent plenty of time reporting bugs on software. I've sent in reports for Evolution from Ximian, a lot to bugzilla for mozilla and many others.

Helping out free software makes sense to me. Giving Palm a free test lab makes me grumble. I understand they can't test every condition before they release...but they should at least try and test as many as they can.

I guess if I can take the time here I can take the time to report it to Palm. grumble grumble grubmle...