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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These are the same people that said that splitting the company into independent hardware and software outfits was a good thing. Their lack of understanding of the symbiotic relationship between hardware and software leaves them unable to comprehend when a technology company as a whole unit is greater than the sum of its parts.
Palm was one of those companies. It very much needed to hold onto PalmOS to push it forward. Under independent leadership, it whithered and died.
That's a shame, because although I didn't care for the underlying architecture, I found the UI to be more appropriate for my needs than something overengineered like many of the Linux and Windows Mobile phones.