Hmmm.. And how many PDAs were sold to compute sea tides, display a sky map, or survey a cave? And how many consumers are accessing Facebook? It's a game of numbers, and the realistic question is "do you want to be selling thousands of units for specialized applications" or do you want to sell 100's of thousands as phone/PDA.
The Palm OS was only being sold in any volume by Palm, so if Palm was in trouble (and they were), so by extension was Palm OS. It's interesting to blame Palm, but it was Access that purchased Palm Source and promised great new things would be coming quickly. The market has evolved, as all markets do. Jeff and Donna showed the right way with the original Palm Pilot, and then later when they had the 1st converged device at Handspring. But the "fire in the belly" that it takes to do really great innovative products seems to have been drained from all Palm-related entities as the core products and OS have stagnated. Even the Palm development community, which once numbered in the thousands, and turned out new products by the hundreds every day, has dropped to only a handful of full-time, hard-core, diehards. ____________________________________________ Lee Church www.mobitechsystems.com -----Original Message----- From: Luc Le Blanc [mailto:llebl...@cam.org] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 9:47 AM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: re: Palm speak > Palm CEO Ed Colligan said Wednesday morning at the Thomas Wiesel > Technology and Telecom Conference in San Francisco: > "The Palm OS is officially dead, having been on life support for > nearly five years. Actually, wasn't it Palm itself that was on life support, keeping itself busing selling, buying and reselling its OS instead of expanding it and designing new devices? Hail the new smartphone. Before, we could buy a simple PDA and perform tasks such as computing sea tides, displaying a sky map or surveying a cave. But who cares about such frivolous taks, now that we can connect instantly to Facebook ;) Luc Le Blanc -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/ -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
