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I'm kinda curious...
If Cobalt and Garnet are so great, why did PalmSource have to go buy a Linux house to provide the core OS for a *third* POS line?
To me it seems like they're saying their existing architecture just doesn't scale *up* to the kind of handhelds needed to stay in the game past 2005...
...the same message I get when I see Nokia resorting to Linux instead of Symbian for their webpad.
In both cases I see an admission that, while WinCE scales up beautifully (the only question with CE has been scaling *down* to smartphones) to data-centric and multimedia devices, their platforms are not robust enough to handle multi-threaded lifestyles and the apps needed to compete.
I'm sure at some point CE will run out of headroom for user needs and demands, but by that time we'll likely be runing full XP in our handhelds...
...and the date will be closer to 2015 than 2005...
8)
Cheers!
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