Palm - who are they again?

Someone needs to defrag the mobile market. Symbian is going open and Android is open pick one and mod it to suit don't go off and pull an Apple, where is the business sense?

If it's good enough (and marketed well enough) to knock the iPhone off its rocker, skip past RIM and slide past Android and Symbian I'll eat my socks.

Seriously.

Unless that happens where are they going to make their money? Selling licenses to devs? Wouldn't it just be cheaper to jump onto Symbian or Android, pay the cheap license fees ($25US for Android) to make your own apps and off you go.

Rather than creating, implementing and supporting the OS all on your own to them compete with the likes of the before mentioned?