Emblaze Signs Mobile OS Deal with ACCESS

I get the distinct taste of vaporware in my mouth after reading this article.

Lot of fluff, little substance.

Well, actually - yes - I =would= be somewhat disheartened by such an event!

Over the years I've gone from respect to derision to admiration to derision to disappointment with PALM-the-company in its various incarnations as Handspring, PalmOne, and then PALM (I admittedly knew little about preHand PALM). The last couple years or so I've sorta gone into disbelief mode (and, of course, echoed some of that disbelief with not-wholly-positive posts here and elsewhere). From the switch to uSoft OS, the departure or apparent demotion of who I considered real key figures like Ken Wirt and Celeste Baranski, the horrendous build/QA of ALL the TREOs post-300, the crazy Next Great Thing and then the CRAZIER dumping of the homegrown Linux for it a month before release, and now, finally, a phone that actually IS at the REAL sweet spot of pricing - $100 - yet is nothing less than a 755p with probable different electronics here and there internally but nothing less, thus being a total compete WITH the 755p.

And throughout all this (and more) the nutty discarding of PalmSource, the equivalent of a "WAITAMINUTE! We didn't mean it!", and now the discarded PalmSource coming through with what PALM should have had BEFORE PALM! (Palm's earnings announcement JUST said "by end of calendar year 2008" - damn if that doesn't sound EXACTLY like the promised - and met! - arrival of the Cobalt operating system!)

So, yes, that's disappointing.

[we're talking an engineering angle here, of ocurse, not a corporate/stock angle - I do on occasion wear that engineering hat still]

And throughout all this (and more) the nutty [split with] PalmSource, the equivalent of a "WAITAMINUTE! We didn't mean it!", and now the [previously split off] PalmSource coming through with what PALM should have had BEFORE PALM!

Just helping you out there buddy. (But don't assume I agree with any of the rest of your "assessment" either.)


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Only if those words mean the same thing, which they don't. So to say "discard" or "dump" instead of "split" is simply wrong. But hey, you don't seem to be at all concerned with accuracy. That could be because you don't care, but you have shown a pattern that leads me to believe otherwise.


Thinking about Vista? Think again: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Want an alternative? Try this: http://www.ubuntu.com/ or http://www.mepis.org/