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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Member since:2005-07-06
open platform making it easier for developers and hackers and hardware makers to play with. Hardware markers get the benefit of having a ready made ecosystem and they don't have to pay for it.
What are you talking about? Maemo is an open platform -- since 2005.
Android is NOT open. If it was truly open, there was no NDA on pre-release SDKs.
The hardest thing to do with a smart phone is to get an active ecosystem, jumping onto Android gets them an active ecosystem for free.
Cut the crap. There's no active eco system for Android. There is a big one for Maemo.
Member since:2005-11-09
Considering Android is the Apache license, you seem to be the one completely mistaken. Apache is an OSI license buddy.
The API that is covered under an NDA is the yet to become public API. That does not make it less open source than any other OSI license except to OSS zealots.
As for the ecosystem, This is backed buy a very large company interested in seeing this thing get market penetration. As was said before, that is a huge difference between Android and the junk you are pushing. An ecosystem is going to be vibrant with Android and people can make money on it.
Edited 2008-10-06 01:57 UTC
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2005-11-09
open platform making it easier for developers and hackers and hardware makers to play with. Hardware markers get the benefit of having a ready made ecosystem and they don't have to pay for it.
The hardest thing to do with a smart phone is to get an active ecosystem, jumping onto Android gets them an active ecosystem for free.