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What truely killed Palm overall is the split between the companies. Pa1mOne and PalmSource were one company, however are now two. Therefore, the hardware based Pa1mOne should work on hardware deployment only and PalmSource should be the OS. However, Pa1mOne refuses to use the newer Palm OS 6 because they can "make due" with OS 5 plus 50 million hacks (stability being the casuality). To put it in lighter terms, Pa1mOne wants to control the OS even if that means they are stuck at OS 5 forever.
It is a pity... the Palm OS was quite a competitor back in the day. The OS had some innovative features and concepts. However, due to this nice internal fight between the two halfs of Palm, they pretty much destroyed themselves.
I hope that eventually somebody will step up to the plate and give MS some competition again. MS doesn't do so well when they can be lazy.
As for "the competition", I think it could be a catch-all for all non-MS devices. Let's hope that a leader will emerge from that pack.
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