This should be good. Palm is coming out in 18months of which 6 have passed. Google is coming out in 12months. I think it would rock the phone.
Vishal Sheth Craig Froehle wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2007 1:20 AM, Lio <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:ldouglas%40gmail.com>> 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. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
