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,
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
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.
I think the people that need a PDA as a tool are still there. Groups that are
flocking to the new smartphones are looking for something different.
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
Lee Church wrote:
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
...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:
...well the first chapter anyway. A taster of things to come?
http://developer.palm.com/assets/images/book/webos_chap1.pdf
Edward Jones
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