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Originally Posted by Verdagon
But seriously, the person at CES's Palm booth said that cobalt WILL come out eventually.
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Not likely. Whom was it that told you this? Unless those words came from the lips of Ken Wirt or Ed Colligan, I don't buy it at all. It makes no strategic or cost sense whatsoever. Basically Palm would be adopting an OS that is already slated for obsolescence, with a shelf-life of just a few more months in the PalmOS timeline. PalmLinux (or whatever it is destined to be called) will arrive sometime this year (internally) and will ship on devices next year. That being the case, why would Palm incur the development and support costs from adopting an OS that isn't going to be viable for much longer? It would make more sense, from a fiscal standpoint to continue with the Garnet until PalmLinux arrives.
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It's not a dead horse... I'd say its a horse in a coma.
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Only Cobalt's APIs will survive. The OS itself is dead.