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I work for a Symbol business partner and can say that they have done their usual crappy job of leaving their customers in the lurch.

There are actually a lot of businesses that use the Palm OS devices and Symbol gave them no notice at all that they were discontinuing the product in the US. They did make an announcement for EMEA, mainly because they can't sell them in the EU because of RoHS.

Although these POS devices can officially still be purchased through the end of this year, some of the parts such as the 4-slot serial cradles have not been available since early in the year.

So Symbol have a bunch of customers stuck with POS based applications and no-where to go. So these idiots want all the customers to drop everything and switch to WM. You can imagine the clients response that they are going to have to pay about $70k to re-do their custom apps and then start to buy WM MC70s that are more than twice the price of the old PDT1800 POS thingies.

I hope those Janam guys do well with their POS device. They could make a lot of people happy.