Wednesday, March 1, 2006
The Future Of PalmOS and The ACCESS Linux Platform
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 01:00 PM
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2006/02/access-linux-platform-and-future-of.html
"A friend asked me the other day what I thought of Access/PalmSource's recent announcement of the Access Linux Platform (formerly known as Palm OS). I think it's interesting, and there are some hopeful signs. But my main takeaway is that we should probably stop thinking of this thing as the successor to Palm OS, and instead judge it as a new mobile OS based on Linux. Here's why..."
Michael Mace, former Chief Competitive Officer of Palm and the PalmSource, gives his thoughts on the Linux platform for PalmOS. I tend to agree with his overall assessment - it won't be a successor, rather a new OS that inherits some tools and compatibility of the aging PalmOS platform. Even with those benefits, will it be enough to lure developers and carriers to deal with, for them at least, an entirely new OS, with its new drivers, radio stacks, hardware needs, etc?
"A friend asked me the other day what I thought of Access/PalmSource's recent announcement of the Access Linux Platform (formerly known as Palm OS). I think it's interesting, and there are some hopeful signs. But my main takeaway is that we should probably stop thinking of this thing as the successor to Palm OS, and instead judge it as a new mobile OS based on Linux. Here's why..."
Michael Mace, former Chief Competitive Officer of Palm and the PalmSource, gives his thoughts on the Linux platform for PalmOS. I tend to agree with his overall assessment - it won't be a successor, rather a new OS that inherits some tools and compatibility of the aging PalmOS platform. Even with those benefits, will it be enough to lure developers and carriers to deal with, for them at least, an entirely new OS, with its new drivers, radio stacks, hardware needs, etc?
