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Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-my-palms-wont-operate dept.

BobB-nw writes to tell us that Palm has decided to kill their PalmOS operating system and is instead betting their future on a still mostly unknown Palm webOS. Very little is known about the new Palm webOS, but it will supposedly support HTML5 and enable a local data store so that applications can be used both online and off. All of this is rolled into a Linux framework with a message bus based on JSON. Will be interesting to see where they take it.

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  1. Re:RIP My Friend by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you seriously anthropomorphizing a Palm?

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  2. Re:Palm keeps falling flat? by resonance378 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apparently you've never supported the Palm Pilot mX Magical Pony Edition or you would not be saying such things. Of the few POS that are still in service where I am employed - our team spends at least 6 hours a week supporting palms for their issues. Users love them for their calendaring and contact lists and don't want to give them up for that. Blackberry just doesn't have it yet when it comes to that in the users eyes. Apparently losing data, duping data, not synching every other day, bursting into flames, and killing babies to a dark lord are all things they can live with in order to use those two functions.