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I think OS5.+ can carry Palm Inc for a while. I just hope Access considers the OS to be a full mobile platform OS, not just a feature phone supporting OS.
And I know that there was a lot of effort required for PalmSource to help with software compatibility going from, say Garnet to Cobalt (not that it was needed after all), or for even the emulation layer in OS5 to work for non-native apps. Maybe someone can clean up the details there for me, because it's vague in my mind now. Called PACE or something wasn't it?
Anyway, what I'm saying is that it's not just providing the basic set of APIs that counts. There's a lot of work to handle cases where the APIs might differ slightly, or some might be deprecated or even removed right away, and there's all the cases where developers used common non-std code to get around limitations.
A lot of questions still up in the air, and I haven't had the chance to even read through the press release yet, but it's still exciting news. Even if we're talking 2007. And there's no severe chopping of functionality to focus on limited feature phones only, which I was concerned about.
I just hope it isn't adopted in devices at the rate Cobalt was! ;-)
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