Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

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Palm Pulls the Plug On Palm OS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Thursday February 12, 2009 @04:43AM 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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Re:RIP My Friend by Anonymous Coward · 2009-02-12 05:05 · Score: 4, Funny

They don't like when you do that to them.
WebOs might change that... by blahbooboo · 2009-02-12 05:09 · Score: 3, Funny

In case you hadn't heard, the new Palm WebOs is creating quite a buzz that Palm may finally be back...
Re:RIP My Friend by Nimey · 2009-02-12 05:27 · Score: 4, Funny

I won't miss if it's within a hundred yards. Swiss-made rifles FTW!

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Re:RIP My Friend by david+duncan+scott · 2009-02-12 05:31 · Score: 4, Funny

What, you've never anthropomorphized your palm, maybe as Jemma Jameson?
More seriously, though, I like my Z22 precisely because it's a simple PDA. I have a phone, I have a camera, I have a music player, and for that matter I have a knife and a fork, and I have no desire to have all those things combined into one monster device (a FrankenBerry?)

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Re:Misleading story by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · 2009-02-12 05:37 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't know how we all missed it, what with our daily checking of your web site.

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Re:RIP My Friend by afabbro · 2009-02-12 05:47 · Score: 2, Funny

What, you've never anthropomorphized your palm, maybe as Jemma Jameson?
Who's Jemma Jameson? One of the Jem'Hadar?

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Re:RIP My Friend by An+ominous+Cow+art · 2009-02-12 06:48 · Score: 2, Funny

No, no, he was a MoTown bass player.
Where's Darl when you need him? by OhHellWithIt · 2009-02-12 07:39 · Score: 1, Funny

There's got to be a niche in there for Darl McBride when he's finished with his ride at SCO.

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