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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
I guess I will have to re-evaluate what I use "The Competition" forum for. I am by far the most prolific poster of new items in here and most of those are about Palm. I probably need to get up to speed on what Nokia is doing with Symbian. Doesn't mean I will never post about Palm again. Come on! There is just too much fun in it. :wink: But in all honesty, it just isn't serious competition for the Windows Mobile platform.
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In that case you may want to focus on mobile-embedded LINUX.
Even Nokia has made it clear (with their actions) that they see Symbian as inadequate for high-end devices (like their web pad) and are starting to migrate *their* gadgets to Linux.
For my money, the high-end alternatives to WinCE for mobile computing, going forward are:
1- XP & sucessors
2- Generic Linux
3- Linux hosting emulators (Palm, possibly Symbian)
4- Legacy Palm
5- Sony PSP
If the promised cheap XP mini tablets do materialize for the 07 time-frame, we're likely to see the 07-08 market split along the lines of 60% Windows Mobile/CE, 20% Full windows, 20% everything else.
As for Palm one, I am not holding my breath waiting for them to sign up for CE. Gotta remember these folks are mostly ex-Apple engineers.
They'll do Linux before the do Windows Mobile/CE, business case be damned.
ABMers never change their stripes.
And in this case, adopting Windows means going toe-to-toe on an even playing field with Dell marketing and HTC engineering, among others. Given the quality of hardware Palm has been dishing out (never mind the OS) I don't think they'd relish that fight.
I think that in the non-phone market, Palm is damned if they do and damned if they don't.