On Tuesday 13 January 2009 16:11:18 Craig Froehle wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Art Alexion <[email protected]> wrote: > > In 5-10 years, who knows what will will need or have. One thing we will > > no longer find relevant, even if, like the long lived Treo, they still > > exist, are Pre-based phones. > > You might be surprised. In 1996, would you have guessed that there'd > still be a lot of people using Palm OS devices 13 years from then? > webOS could be around for a long time...certainly Linux has been, and > if the UI is just a layer on Linux, then it could have a long life of > tweaks and facelifts ahead of it before it becomes functionally > obsolete.
That wasn't quite my point. Chances are, Pre-like phones, if they save Palm, will be around. But they won't be any more relevant to the market as a whole than the Treo is today. As for WebOS, if it evolves like Linux, it will be most viable. If it evolves like Palm OS, it will be a niche relic. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
