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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. RIP My Friend by clonan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have used palm OS for almost ten years.

    Rest in Peace my friend, you will be missed.

    1. Re:RIP My Friend by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I have used palm OS for almost ten years.

      Rest in Peace my friend, you will be missed.

      I don't know about missed. I think more like "fondly remembered", in that special kind of nostalgic way where you're simultaneously glad it is in fact a memory.

      I've been using PalmOS devices since 97, and let me tell you, it wasn't long after the calendar hit 2000 that I stopped having a lot of patience for a non-multitasking OS. If this de-feature had made it stable that'd be one thing, but that's one thing PalmOS never was.

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  2. Palm lost the plot years ago... by argent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    IF they'd kept the original PalmOS model and followed it to cheaper devices you'd be seeing Palms instead of Ti graphing calculators as the standard handheld for schoolkids by now... which would have translated into massive sales as the kids grew up. But Palm decided they HAD to go head to head against the Pocket PC, and threw away most of the advantages of the small, tight, lightweight Palm OS while keeping most of its disadvantages with PalmOS 5.

  3. Re:About damn time by couchslug · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They should have kept to standard designs, dropped the price, and made Palms as common and cheap as pocket calculators.

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