http://www.osnews.com/story/17074/Access_Renames_Palm_OS_to_Garnet_OS Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:02:56 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?205915 http://osnews.com/thread?205915 Really? I could have sworn that Palm, Inc. was a subsidiary of US Robotics in 1995... Did you perhaps mean 2005?

On topic, if they're renaming it Garnet OS, does that mean that they've dropped Cobalt entirely? If so, can they give the Be source code back? Please? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Roguelazer) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205936 http://osnews.com/thread?205936 I really wish that SOMEONE would release a well thought out PDA running Cobalt. But it doesn't look like it will happen. And Palm still won't release any decent PDAs... The Treos rock, but thats about it. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (helf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205949 http://osnews.com/thread?205949 PalmSource, now a part of Access, stopped working on Cobalt for all intents and purposes, two years ago, when they announced their PalmOsForLinux project.

PDAs are dead. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205950 http://osnews.com/thread?205950 I think the standalone PDA is coming to its end, but if you look at some of the releases HTC are coming out with the smartphone and pda-phone are going to be going strong for a long while. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (asusanator) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205992 http://osnews.com/thread?205992 Absolutely.

Moto, HTC, Palm, Sharp, Nokia, et cetera, all have new smartphones headed to market and no letup in sight. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?205999 http://osnews.com/thread?205999 Since PalmOS bought a permanent license to the PalmOS sourcecode from Access to do with as they please, I'm guess that they will be releasing the PalmOS branded version? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsharitt) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206002 http://osnews.com/thread?206002 Who need the copyrighted licenced Be's code when you have Haiku ? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jeanmarc) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206016 http://osnews.com/thread?206016 Access = Microsoft Desktop Database system.

Garnet = Comedy character from an old English television program, synonomous with West Ham football club and racism.

Seriously, why would they throw away the Palm brand, and replace it with something less recognisable, which also could cause confusion with other products?

Craziness! Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (robinh) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206021 http://osnews.com/thread?206021 Seriously, why would they throw away the Palm brand, and replace it with something less recognisable, which also could cause confusion with other products?

Ego. IANABP (I am not a business person) nor do I play one on TV, so I never understand this reasoning either. When buying a company, a large portion of the money goes into "goodwill" and "brand recognition". Why some companies as a first step decide to blow millions on rebranding (think of all the marketing materials, letterheads, web presence, etc.) to replace the original (paid-for!) name with their own, often less known, can only be explained by ego.

Does anyone have any statistics as to growth, market value, brand recognition etc. before and after such a renaming action? Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sanders) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206030 http://osnews.com/thread?206030 Didn't Palm buy back all the rights to the Palm name? Maybe they're not allowed to call it PalmOS anymore. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bsharitt) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206075 http://osnews.com/thread?206075 IAANABP, but I'd say that in cases where two well-known (and equally well-liked) brands are merged, it often makes sense to get rid of one of those brands, because it allows for a "halo effect" that disperses equally on all of your products. However, in all cases where one brand is better-known (and/or better-liked) you're absolutely right that it makes no sense to get rid of that brand name.

I suspect this is Access's way of saying "screw you" to Palm for not throwing their support behind Access's upcoming platform. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Moochman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206101 http://osnews.com/thread?206101 The messing with the well known brand names can be bad like the Borland / Inprise madness of melons.

Alf Garnet is not good name for OS. Bald man. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (littlewilliedetector) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206112 http://osnews.com/thread?206112 IAAAWGEGFEG WTF Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nutela) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206131 http://osnews.com/thread?206131 It's really unfortunate that PDA's are coming to an end. I have yet to see a so-called 'smart' phone that can meet my needs. Smashing the PDA and phone together has moved things backwards. I need the smallest possible phone for the convenience factor, not a massive thing that tries to do everything (but nothing well) that I have to lug around.Edited 2007-01-26 17:39 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bleebo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206144 http://osnews.com/thread?206144 All of Palm's current products run garnet, (PalmOS 5,) as modified by Palm.

Garnet is technology near the end of its life.

Palm has not said what they intend to do with the technology they licensed, although industry speculation is that they're going to do a Linux based PalmOS of their own. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206147 http://osnews.com/thread?206147 Exactly correct.

PalmSource, before being bought by Access, sold the rights to the "Palm" name to PalmOne, which then changed its name back to Palm.

The deal gave PalmSource 4 years to replace "Palm" in its name and the name of all of its products. Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Cloudy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?206152 http://osnews.com/thread?206152 The messing with the well known brand names can be bad like the Borland / Inprise madness of melons.

I agree. Palm is a well recognized name already. Now they are starting from scratch. How well known can a handheld OS be with a non-tech consumer?Browser: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments