Dianne Hackborn has written two detailed comments in reply to the Palm article, mostly dealing with Cobalt, but also touching upon Palm OS’ influence on Android. Hackborn worked at Be, Inc. for a few years, before moving to PalmSource, and has been working at Google on Android for the past seven years. “I would like to say the design of Android actually took a lot of inspiration from Palm. Many of the core engineers on Android came from PalmSource (most having arrived there from Be), and saw Android as an opportunity to do what PalmSource was trying to accomplish in an environment that was more likely to succeed.”
If you/we can get some more information (like this) one could build the ultimate Palm history/background website.
All this Palm talk caused me to charge my Palms and it turns out my Palm T|X can synch with Microsoft Exchange 2010 via WiFi.
Long live Palm! I’m happy that Palm OS is still alive in another form.