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The Palm OS Ends With a Whimper
PetManimal writes "Computerworld reviews the Palm Treo 755p, the last Palm device with the Palm OS, and concludes that the OS is going out not with a bang but with a whimper. The article says there are some useful improvements (better integration with Exchange and IM, limited speech recognition, etc.) but 'nothing that will make you sit back and say "wow."' Palm already has at least one device with Windows Mobile (the 700w) and soon will make a big push to Linux devices, maybe by the end of the year. But the Palm OS, which was top dog for a while back in the 1990s, and is still used by many people who own Palm Pilots or Treos, is going to quickly fade, it seems."
..palm to be the biggest lame duck company in the tech industry in a long time. how many employees do they have? how many revisions of their product have they produced? what kind of product evolution has their core technology seen in the last 'n' iterations?
they seem to excel at pissing off their key employees, having those employees leave, buying them back, licensing out their core technology, licensing it back, etc.
someone should really, really just put the company out of its misery.
they're the borland of the new century.