"...but it was Access that purchased Palm Source and promised great new
things would be coming quickly."
So whatever happened to the Access Linux Platform with it apparent
Garnet compatibility? Has anyone ever got there hands or developed on
such a beast?
Edward Jones
Lee Church wrote:
Hmmm..
And how many PDAs were sold to compute sea tides, display a sky map, or survey a cave?
And how many consumers are accessing Facebook? It's a game of numbers, and the realistic
question is "do you want to be selling thousands of units for specialized
applications" or do you want to sell 100's of thousands as phone/PDA.
The Palm OS was only being sold in any volume by Palm, so if Palm was in
trouble (and they were), so by extension was Palm OS. It's interesting to
blame Palm, but it was Access that purchased Palm Source and promised great new
things would be coming quickly.
The market has evolved, as all markets do. Jeff and Donna showed the right way with the
original Palm Pilot, and then later when they had the 1st converged device at Handspring.
But the "fire in the belly" that it takes to do really great innovative
products seems to have been drained from all Palm-related entities as the core products
and OS have stagnated. Even the Palm development community, which once numbered in the
thousands, and turned out new products by the hundreds every day, has dropped to only a
handful of full-time, hard-core, diehards.
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Lee Church
www.mobitechsystems.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Luc Le Blanc [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:47 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: re: Palm speak
Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the Thomas Wiesel
Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco:
"The Palm OS is officially dead, having been on life support for
nearly five years.
Actually, wasn't it Palm itself that was on life support, keeping itself busing
selling, buying and reselling its OS instead of expanding it and designing new
devices?
Hail the new smartphone. Before, we could buy a simple PDA and perform tasks
such as computing sea tides, displaying a sky map or surveying a cave. But who
cares about such frivolous taks, now that we can connect instantly to Facebook
;)
Luc Le Blanc
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