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Originally Posted by lapchinj
The best thing they could do is go to Linux and concentrate on staying solvent. They might be able to make Linux transparent to the user but I feel bad for all the developers that will have to rewrite their apps. Their code will not port over unless they did it in Java (is there a Java VM for the Palm?).
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Bottom line of my following argument: 'F... them.' The only reason Palm is in this bad shape is because they hold onto these old programs and architecture. I had a Palm Pilot Pro the day they came out, and I witnessed the birth of the 'Zen of Palm'. In fact, I was a Palm software developer many moons ago, during the days of mono screens, 1 mb of memory and 8 mhz processors, and I feel proud to say that I contributed in some small way to making Palm what it once was before it went stale.
Sure, starting over will be difficult - but look at it this way: You know how many Palm developers there are? Multiply that by a thousand, and you have the number of Linux developers. There are people right now working on software for devices like the Zaurus, and quite a lot of that work can be directly transferred to a new Palm running some sort of Linux - provided Palm finallly grows a set of balls and gives the public and the developers what they crave: good hardware and a good OS that we can build on.
If you build it, they will come. Developers love challenges, and the Linux people even more so. You can't swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a dozen different distros and projects.
I'll be first in line to get a Linux powered Palm PDA.