On Nov 28, 2007 8:12 PM, L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the thing is ... if Palm joins Android they lose the competitive advantage > of owning the network. That's where the money is to be made.
Ha ha ha...using "advantage" and "Palm" in the same sentence is pretty funny, there. > If they > acquiesce to Android ... they become just another handset maker and perhaps > corporate ego or financial status (future margins vs debt) won't allow them > to. Here's the thing: Android is going to be free. Palm has spent years TRYING to develop nearly exactly what Android already is -- a Linux-based phone platform. So a Palm phone running its new OS and a Palm phone running Android would essentially provide the same function. The only way Palm could differentiate itself is push its Palm OS emulation layer to enable backward-compatibility with legacy Palm OS apps. But they could do that with Android as well. The advantage, though, is that all those developers making new Android apps will most likely be ignoring Palm's new OS. And, there will be scads of new phone makers using Android already, so Palm has no advantage from isolating itself with some pseudo-open OS when a truly open OS will be out there with a growing following. Palm will either join Android (and I don't mean jump exclusively to Android, any more than they abandoned Palm OS when they started offering WinMo phones) or they will dry up and blow away. Remember Tandy computers? I didn't think so. They didn't believe in capitalizing on emerging standards, either. > Though one could argue that they were already on this path with the PPC > line. But this new Palm OS is starting to sound a little like Vista. > > On Nov 28, 2007 7:54 AM, Sandro Campos Mancini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/palm-confirms-itll-be-skipping-the-android-party/ > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Michael M. Rye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:11 AM > > Subject: Re: [Treo] New group > > > > > > >I must have missed that Palm announcement. When/where did > > > they announce that?? (In my opinion, it's not very bright > > > of them to not join the Android effort. I guess we'll > > > just have to wait and see what they do.) > > > > > > --- > > > Michael > > > > > > > > > > > > Sandro Campos Mancini wrote: > > >> Not me. Palm announced it will not join the Android initiative, so I > > >> agree that a separate list is the way to go. > > >> > > >> - - - - - > > >> Sandro Campos Mancini > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- > ============================== > War Eagle > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://www.GearBits.com -- Tech. Culture. Ideas. Opinions.
