Friday, May 2, 2008

Is the Palm OS dying?

The Washington Post has published an interesting but bizarrely flip-flopping editorial from PC World Contributing Editor James A. Martin entitled Is the Palm OS Dying? Should You Care? The piece discusses the uncertain future facing both Palm Inc. and the Palm OS, now owned by Japan’s Access Software. In short, Mr. Martin makes no bones about Palm’s gradual, protracted decline due to its aging OS and increasingly unglamorous hardware specs, calling Palm Inc. a “third-tier smartphone vendor” but ultimately asserts the platform as still viable and offering a compelling combination of friendliness, flexibility, and value.

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