Tuesday, February 28, 2006

New article: The future of the Palm platform: lessons learned from the Sharp Zaurus

From December of 2002 through February of 2003, Computing Unplugged Senior Technical Editor Jason Perlow was Software Developer Liaison for Sharp Electronics’ Zaurus. As some of you may recall, the Zaurus was also a Linux PDA, which shared many similarities with the ALP platform, and like ACCESS and PalmSource, the Zaurus was also the product of a Japanese company. The Zaurus had many things going for it, but it failed miserably in the US and European consumer market. In this important article, Jason shares his insights into what went wrong and what ACCESS has to do to get it right.

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