Linked by David Adams on Sun 5th Oct 2008 03:18 UTC
A Fortune Magazine article looks at hand-held computing's most beleaguered major player and wonders whether it wouldn't be better off hitching its wagon to Google's coat-tails and adopting Android. After shunting aside its own, old-and-creaky OS in favor of Microsoft's it's been hanging its hopes on a long-awaited new Linux-based OS. Android may be Palm's best bet to avoid stemming its inexorable slide into irrelevance.
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2005-07-06
This is not about what technical solution is best. This is about financial backing. Even though there are other free Linux based systems out there today, having Google money behind the development of Android makes people believe it will be there tomorrow as well.
Another factor, is that it is quite easy to develop applications on Android. Many universities use Java in their beginner courses, and in the enterprice Java is close to becomming the next COBOL, i.e. the language that is used for everything important. So it should not be hard to find developers, and developers is very important for success.