Palm might be ready to show off new OS
CES 'announcement' expected
Friday, 12 December 2008, 10:43
THE DARK satanic rumour mill is turning out a yarn that Palm is going to show off a new operating system at CES in January.
Invites to the press have been sent out saying that the outfit will be showing off "all that Palm New-ness you've been waiting for."
Of course that could mean anything, but since most hacks have been waiting for Palm's much delayed next-generation "Nova" operating system, the smart money is on it being ready for January.
Nova is Linux based and if Palm is going to make a stab of clawing back any market share in these trying times then it had better be good.
According to News.com the rumours are that not only is Palm going to produce its own operating system, it is also going to provide a new machine to stick it on. µ
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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?
Palm - who are they again?