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Originally Posted by BobR
In the meantime, hopefully we'll find out that Mercedes is right and PalmOS Cobalt devices will pop up and grow and that market share will strengthen and the signs will turn positive. The original success of Palm was more spectacular than a simple turnaround. Why not?!
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I've been hearing some very distressing news from developers who have personally seen and used Cobalt on the first (as-yet-unreleased, non-smartphone) device. The concensus is that OS6.1 is
several orders of magnitude slower than any OS5 device currently out.
It doesn't look good for Palmsource, and none of the OEMs wants Cobalt.
Here is a quote from a very well-known Palm developer:
"They've been struggling for three years to build a new OS and they took the worst path at every turn, by rewriting their own kernel, their own compilers, their own standard library, and more. They did everything they could to make it fail."