Palm to Shift to ARM Processor

krugdm writes "According to this article, Palm is expected to announce that it will be modifying its OS to run on faster ARM processors instead of the current Motorola Dragonball processor."

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More CPU power can be useful for palm

[Lally Singh]

Palm's biggest advantage has always been their mission plan: be a good handheld organizer. Note that I didn't say 'handheld computer.'

Palm's single greatest asset has been a _WELL_DEFINED_ _PLAN_ and a _TARGET_MARKET_. CE's target market is "Palm's customers," without a second thought about _WHO_ those people are: salespeople, businesspeople, etc... you know, the _ordinary_user_, who doesn't really care that much about running a full web browser in their pocket (hence the philosophical difference between full internet connectivity and web clipping :full unadulterated access at disgustingly low speeds versus an efficient access point for the data most often accessed)... Don't let me go off on how little foresight or design MS actually puts into their products...

I don't see Palm turning their products into the ubergeek-toys that the CE crowd has been putting out: tiny handheld computers that are simply painful to use because they try to replace desktop computers with shitty, overpriced, small screened, keyboardless versions. Palm aims for the general public with a tool that lets you store your data, recall it, and otherwise, just gets out of your damn way.

CE's just turning into another Apple Newton: a handheld computer that's waaay too overpriced for too little functionality; useful only to those .1% of the computer buying population that can't possibly sit down and use a desktop for the majority of their real work.

Palm's probably going to use the new CPU power for things like a prettier GUI, voice recognition, MP3 playing, and perhaps some multimedia. At the end of the day, just improving what it does now: assists you with your life's tasks, not taking them over like CE.

But, let me end my random tirade on WinCE versus PalmOS... I'm afraid that the percentage of people here on /. that seek an ubergeek-toy is disproportionately high.

--Lally Singh, Palm Software Developer.

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Maybe they should have considered...

[Bonker]

Shogakukan's 'Ranma' processor. If you douse it in cold water, it transforms into an 'ARM', but if you pour hot water over it, it changes back into a 'Dragonball'.

"Oh sirs, very tragic story of microprocessor that drown in spring one thousand, two hundred year ago!"

Okay, enough with the stupid anime jokes already.