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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
By "available" if that means to device manufacturers, including Palm, it will likely be Q1 2009 before devices are ready, and that assumes carriers approve it on their network. We'll see. We've heard this many times before since February 2004 when they announced Cobalt, the successor to the current platform. Almost 4 years later, not a single device has shipped with the new OS. |
The two situations are not the same. Cobalt wasn't created by Palm. It was developed by a separate company called PalmSource, which is now a part of Access. Palm's major involvement in Cobalt was to reject it.
Palm has since completely given up on PalmSource/Access, and what Colligan is talking about in this announcement is an operating system that his company is developing for use on its own devices.
Palm doesn't have to hope that other companies will license this OS. It's going to put it on its own Treos. And Colligan said in yesterday's conference call that the OS won't just be ready by the end of 2008, but devices running it will be on the market.
Access has developed a followup to Cobalt called ALP, but like I said Palm has given up on that company and has no interest in ALP.
All this means that Palm isn't taking my suggestion to give up on developing its own operating system. Instead, I think that it should create a "Palm OS" shell for Windows Mobile. Of course, I didn't really expect it to. Still, if you're interested, you can read the details here:
http://www.brighthand.com/default.asp?newsID=13351
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