Well, it does make you wonder what, exactly Access was acquiring when they paid all that money to buy PalmSource. I guess it was just the Chinese Linux group that PalmSource already had created.
I agree that we will never see a stand-alone PDA that run ALP. Having said that how many more, if any, stand-alone Palm or WM PDA's will we see? I'm sure we'll see a very small number of one or the other to satisfy a niche of the market that doesn't want communication capabilities. Other than that, the market is about gone anyway - killed by lack of innovation by device manufacturers IMO.
Not to beat a dead horse, but it is truly amazing how long Palm has managed to squeeze life out of POS. When Garnet released it was a supposed to be a temporary stop on the way to the next version of POS. Here it is, something like 5 years later, and all they have is that same temporary bridge. What the heck have they been doing with R&D dollars over this entire time? I know Cobalt flopped, but did that flop because it was a bad idea, or because Palm and later PalmSource refused to fully invest in it?