Palm euthanizes Palm OS pre-Pre. A sad end.
Sure, Palm's new Web OS is not yet out, and will only be there when the "Pre" is released sometime later this year, but this is a very sad end to an innovative operating system. One can hope -- without much realistic chance, I am afraid -- that the company itself can survive the dramatic changes rapidly morphing PDAs and cellphones into small, mobile PCs. I think Palm is toast and, as a (former) long-time Palm user, find it rather ironic that the category-creator is losing out to far later arrivals. The famed "applications barrier to entry" that protected Microsoft for so long has done little to advantage Palm, it appears.
Posted by Glenn Manishin
