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msmobiles.com_robot · Joined: 23 Mar 2004 Posts: 16777215

Palm OS is not dead. Despite the fact that Palm decided to use Windows Mobile in upcoming Treo smartphones. Palm however is not giving up on Palm OS: there will be next Palm OS smartphones! But there is one thing th...

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jeffreii · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 65

palm is about as stupid as steve jobs and apple then - too ignorant and proud of their own brand to realize microsoft will dominate.

btw my 6700 is AMAZING.

-jeff

jeffreii · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 65

actually i take back that apple comment cuz they are using intel processors now which should allow dual apple/windows systems but i'm still mad they declined to put sirius radio on ipods. idiots.

-jeff

155 · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 1

The reason why palm can't give up on the palm os, is because palm is so much better in low end applications. People like me willing to spend a thousand dollars on the jasjar or people willing to spend so much on the Treo demand the high end features of Windows mobile, but when you look at the sub $200 range, palm os still wins. You can pick up a palm for under $100, and you still can't do that with Windows Mobile even with Dell's awesome distribution. Under $250, palm has very little competition and if they were to make all their higher end handhelds Windows Mobile they would have a lot of trouble attracting the proper developers to their lower end devices.

For those reasons they can't move over to Windows Mobile completely.