>> 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
Well said. The fashion has definitely shifted away from PDAs. But is that a trend that Palm encouraged, or would it have happened anyway? My feeling is that the PDA was just too much work for most people. That is why it was never widely accepted, the way that mobile phones are. -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
