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Totally guessing here. iPAQ ran Windows Mobile (a derivative of windows CE). I believe custom drivers were not well supported. As well, back around 2009 I loo
by cududa 3y ago
Totally guessing here.
iPAQ ran Windows Mobile (a derivative of windows CE). I believe custom drivers were not well supported.
As well, back around 2009 I looked into Windows CE for a hobby project I thought about commercializing, and the licensing costs were INSANE. IIRC, there was a revenue component too.
While I don’t recall all specifics, I believe using Windows Mobile in an industrial use case it violated the EULA and you’d need to use a proper Windows CE env.
Total total guess here, but I wonder if they were tied to Windows CE, still paying licensing costs, given how few “true” imax screens there are, if the base licensing costs they’d have locked into 20 years ago, would’ve made “true” imax screens unprofitable/ have retired them at the onset of the pandemic
- garaetjjte 3y agoWindows CE was cheap, like $3 per device.
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoIdunno, Microsoft jumped through hoops to get folks ported to Windows Mobile. The problem was that WinCE was just vastly... more. At some point it essentially just looked like Windows. App development was quite straightforward. Mobile, on the other hand, was powerful but complex. And Mobile also had a really high bar for certification. We definitely used Mobile in industrial use cases but WinCE was much, much easier to certify and much cheaper to keep around on old SKUs and LTS contracts.