Sales channels are wide open. Name recognition attracts the business community. Camp followers on both sides gird for battle. There's talk and speculation about Pilot's future now that Windows CE has entered the PDA market. Much of the debate has taken on the missionary accent of zealotry, with partisans on a sacred quest to defend their chosen technology.
Pilot has advantages both for independent software developers and for users.
Any Pilot program runs on almost any Pilot. It is a single, software-compatible system. Unsophisticated users can buy or download Pilot applications and use them right away. This is not true for the palm-sized WinCE units. NEC's MobilePro runs different software than Philips's Velo, which runs different software than Casio's E-10, and so on.