IDG News Service
interviewed PalmSource CEO David Nagel, where he talks about PalmSource's acquitision of China MobileSoft, the Chinese market for mobile devices in general, the role of Linux as an operation system for mobile devices, and his personal opinion on the future of the PDA:
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It's not dead. We still see 3 to 4 million of these devices being sold with our operating system. What we're finding, though, is that the market is evolving. There are people, like my wife, who still use a PDA. Although she has a smart phone, she just recently bought a new PDA because she does digital photography and uses it as a photo album. Some people will want a combined device, others will want two. The market will sort this out.
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