Comments on: Next Palm OS not until 2008

Palm revealed earlier this year that it's working on its own Linux-based version of the venerable Palm OS, but it's not going to arrive until next year.

[shane--2008]

2008?

by then the iPhone will have 75% of the "smart phone" market all
wrapped up.

good luck palm, you are going to need it. RIM will have 24% and i
am sure you can have the leftovers.....

[caywen123]

It's not "Palm" anymore

It's Access. Palm no longer exists, AFAIK.

[ps_martin]

Ummm...

http://www.palm.com/us/

[Mr-P]

wow

thats a huge estimate 75% by iphone in 1 year... Do you really think that 75% of all phone users worldwide will only use Iphones?

[Orion Blastar]

Not at the price the iPhone sells at

it won't reach 75%.

Nokia is popular because it is an inexpensive cell phone which is why it has one of the largest user bases of any cell phone company.

[Olu070]

75% of smart phones

I think they meant 75% of smart-phone users. If rumors that Apple sold 700,000 iPhones in the 1st 3 days is even remotely close, that won't be too difficult a goal.

[rblevitt]

iPhone will have 75% of the market share?

Given that the least expensive variant of the iPhone is $499, I don't
think so.

[NRecob]

iDon't Bother-Palm=Relic from the Past

Palm/Garnet/whatever you want to call it is HISTORY ;)
Even the latest Treos seem VERY dated next to Blackberrys and
iPhones ;)

[Orion Blastar]

Which is why Palm is converting to Linux

because Linux has the power to beat the Mac OSX based iPhone. PalmOS/GarnetOS is too old and it cost a lot of money to develop new features.

It is cheaper to convert to Linux, IBM learned that when OS/2 cost them billions so they converted their applications over to Linux and eventually gave up OS/2 to eComStation.

Even Novell has converted the core of their Netware operating system to run under Linux.

[sandman619]

Palm's foolish outlook of the future

Palm's President has shown where Palm's future is headed when
his statement that Apple would be foolish to enter the mobile
market. Looks like he is eating crow for dinners now. Palm's
answer to the iPhone was a $400 device that does little to make
any Palm device relevant.

[Orion Blastar]

I assume you meant the Palm Treo

http://www.palm.com/us/products/smartphones/treo680/

I think the Treo series was out before the iPhone, and the iPhone is a copycat of the Treo, minus the keyboard of course.

Apple yet again is a Johnny Come Lately with the iPhone, Nokia, Palm, and many others had iPhone like products already on the market before Apple decided to get into the smartphone market.

Apple's idea of a PDA was the Newton, a miserable failure. The Palm Pilot won out over that.

[edsoliz]

Palm = good hardware, old software, and no updates

Palm's hardware is great, (removable batteries nonwithstanding) but their OS and software is stuck in 1998. It would also be nice if they provided software updates like just about every _other_ company on the planet. I like my T|X, it does lots of things, but I can't help but think that it could do more.