On Nov 3, 2007 1:20 AM, Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah - seems the news stories about this have been buzzing a lot > lately. When you say "get in on this" do you mean adopt the Google OS? > Wouldn't that kill nearly all their work over the past 2 years with > Foleo and the next gen Palm OS? And what would it do for Palm's > ability to differentiate themselves?
No, I don't think it would. Palm can still make decent, innovative hardware if it weren't so saddled with propping up an OS and making it work with carriers (a huge time-sink for engineering resources). Plus, there's no telling how specified the UI will be on this -- it may just be a bunch of underlying stuff (radio stacks, kernel, etc.). If so, Palm could then do the UI just like they've been planning on doing with Linux. Hell, this may actually save Palm a crapload more work just to get a usable phone OS and let them concentrate on the user experience. Total speculation, but it's exciting to think about.
