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Palm Announces Separated Software Operations

Posted by timothy on from the wish-they'd-license-be-through-palm dept.

Eharley writes: "'Palm on Monday announced it has completed the split of its operating system division from the rest of the company. The software unit will now report separately on the financial performance of its licensing business, and could eventually be spun off or sold by Palm.' Yahoo is carrying the story here. Considering that their market share in PDA devices has been slipping, is this a move that will signal the end of the Palm hardware line or organizers?"

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  1. Re:this may seem off-topic, but... by alen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Apple a superior platform? Only now in OS X are we seeing protected memory. Windows has had it for years. I almost laughed when I had to allocate memory to an app on a PowerMac a few years ago.

    And I was in CompUSA over the weekend and the cheapest G4 they had was $1699 without the monitor. What a rip off considering it had only 128MB RAM and all the components except for the BIOS and CPU are identical to a PC. Is OS X really worth that much of a premium over Windows 2000 or XP? I've used both without crashes or reboots for months at a time.