On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:16 PM, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a shame that more wasn't invested in replacing the Treo > series back when so many of us were complaining that the OS had pretty > much limited out, rather than wait 'til the doomish predictions were proved.
A little history, if you'll indulge me. Palm was VERY active in trying to replace Palm OS. But, senior management got in the way of the engineers through a series of corporate upheavals, including spinning off PalmSource, licensing Palm OS, and merging PalmSource with ACCESS (an Asian company). Through all that, the engineers at both Palm & PalmSource were quite busy trying to gin up a new OS based on Linux. However, the marketing and corporate elements of the companies were more focused on other things, so the constant undulation in the company frustrated the technical efforts. That's what I've gotten 2nd- and 3rd-hand, but if there are any former (or current) Palm employees on here who want to elaborate, please, be my guest.
