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Well, with out really knowing how the end product would of been, i don't know if I agree with other people's opinion. Simply put - and at least at one time, I think the Palm OS could of survived as a platform on it's own. In order for that to happen it would of needed to move on to something other than a small form factor PDA.
For many people, a simple palm like Foleo device is all they need. Everyone who is reading this knows someone in our own little circle of life who finds the PC intimidating. A simple computing device that can provide the basics such as web browsing, emails, and run the same applications which the Palm OS runs I think would do well for them and still would allow them to move all of their applications and data from such a device to their Palm PDA. Even Microsoft wont completely do this with WinCE and it's desktop OS.
Anyway, in my mind that is how I would liked to have seen the Foleo become, but even that vision I believe is different than what Palm wanted to do. And seeing how Palm has long since lost it's market lead, the Foleo in it's current state would of only caused Palm to mis-direct even more of their resources and attention away from the Palm OS which they can't afford to do and would of been the final nail in their coffin.
And just because this is a Windows Mobile site, and the site owner is in "bed" with Microsoft, far makes the Windows Mobile platform the "best" for a portable device - there are still alot of improvements that can be done to benefit the end user. If anything, WM has no other real challengers. Hopefully the new Palm OS will be just that and keeps MS on their toes. Remember what happened to IE before Firefox began getting market share? It sat for years stagnant without any changes or improvements - we sure don't want that to happen to WM, do we?
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