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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:amazing stupidity by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    imagine the same scenario today: posts would be moderated flamebait, troll, offtopic, or (more likely) overrated. Asshat moderators can be counteracted by other moderators or graded in M2. Meanwhile, every day dozens of inaccurate/wrong posts get modded up then modded down as overrated (which doesn't affect the label assigned to it), or flambait/troll/offtopic (which may cause other mods to mod it back up because they don't consider it a troll).

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