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Originally Posted by Jason Lee
If palm goes to this new fancy shmancy OS what happens to those (poor lost souls) who only want/need a basic digital organizer?
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Palm will continue to offer affordable legacy m68k based organizers running OS4. OS5 ARMware will be restricted to the high-end. Palm will continue to have a nicely balanced price tier for its customers. That isn't the problem.
The REAL problem is that Palm will begin marketing expensive devices with multimedia functions at a time when Pocket PC is getting cheaper. You can bet that the first OS5 systems will cost at least $450- $500. If the rumors of Dell's move into the PDA market with a $299 PPC are true, Palm is going to have a hard time trying to get consumers to buy their new hardware. It's rather sad. Palm has been fighting a bloody price war in the low-end of the market with its own licensees. And now they are jumping into the high-end market, just in time to get butchered by Pocket PC vendors. And in the cell phone/smartphone market, they have Nokia to content with.
Some days it just doesn't pay to be a money losing device company.