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Palm bets future on new their new OS, shares sink in meantime November 06, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Long time ago Palm has divided itself into hardware and software divisions. Later software division making Palm OS was sold to Japanese company Access, but all in all Access failed to produce appealing OS, so Palm (hardware division) decided to make it themselves. Due to these complications there is big delay and now many people claim that Palm should just use Google Android (also based on Linux) instead of cobbling together new OS. Palm may collapse if their new Palm OS, based on Linux, to be released in the middle of next year, will fail... In meantime they are having capital problems, and the only hope are the new phones powered by the new OS: McCourt said Palm, maker of the Centro and Treo smartphones, is on track to release its new hardware and operating system in mid-2009. He expects the launch to ultimately return the Sunnyvale, California-based company to profitability. To learn more, visit story about shares of Palm going down. Our suggestion to Palm: do not bet everything on new OS, particularly because customers will be getting in the same time frame many (!!!) phones powered by Google Android from many major and minor manufacturers and could be unwilling to use exotic OS. In our opinion Palm should consider releasing their phones with dual-boot ability so that they would run also Windows Mobile at the same time... or at least they should have also enough Windows Mobile handsets in portfolio, so that in case of failure of their new OS, they would have means to survive...  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 2 Comments ]
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