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> Obviously, you must be superior to all.
I am not superior to anyone, I am just getting aggrevated when people don't understand things and they need to get them spelled out. BeOS fans for example would close their eyes and not read the true meaning of press releases and strategic plans that was meaning the end of BeOS as we knew it. They were keeping the faith. Little they knew.
PalmOS fans do the same thing today. They don't get what really is happening to the PalmOS as they know it. There is not such PalmOS anymore -- not from Palmsource anyway. Sure, Palm still sells PalmOS 5.4.9, but this ancient technology is going the way of the dodo in favor of Windows Mobile on their camp (slowly but surely).
The new "PalmOS" that's based on Linux is not in API, looks, or application base similar to PalmOS 5.x, not even to PalmOS 6 (which was different anyway). Sure, some of the technologies will be ported over, some of the code will be reused. But Palmsource/Access is re-inventing themelves in terms of "PalmOS". Don't think of this product as a "cooler PDA-like OS". While touchscreen products based on it might work in a similar way, the non-touchscreen versions won't. The PalmOSLinux version supports both UIs. And software emulation for PalmOS 5 apps is not even guaranteed for all these products. That is, IF they actually manage to sell their product to anyone. No, Palm is NOT interested in licensing.
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