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Old 05-24-2005, 03:33 AM
Janak Parekh
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Originally Posted by Jonathan1
The problem is I personally doubt that they have time to build a new OS from scratch. I mean if you REALLY started something from scratch? Minimum a year I bet. Why do I get this image of Apple's transition from OS 9 to 10 here? How many times did they start and stop that project before Jobs came back?
Right -- the Mac fans kept the platform solvent long enough for OS X to be released and perfected. I don't know if Palm is going to have the same groundswell. It seems to me the LifeDrive is a strong attempt to maintain the userbase in that fashion, and it remains to be seen how it'll fare.

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