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Friday, October 21, 2005
Access will dump Palm OS
These statements confirm the impression garnered at the time of the acquisition that Access's strategic interest in acquiring PalmSource was in getting its hands on the Linux development capabilities PalmSource acquired at the end of last year when it bought China Mobilesoft.
Together with the joint venture with Oki Electric for multimedia, Access is suddenly a heavy-weight in complete platforms and applications suites for mobile phones, directly competing with Symbian, Microsoft and others. Not that Microsoft is any competitor to talk about at this time, so if anything it's really about knocking out Symbian from the smart phone and soon feature phone pedistals. Meanwhile most feature/volume phones are based on more or less proprietary solutions.
Palm is ironically instead taking the Microsoft route, also leaving Palm OS behind.
Access: foreseeing the demise of the Palm OS - Computer Business Review
Together with the joint venture with Oki Electric for multimedia, Access is suddenly a heavy-weight in complete platforms and applications suites for mobile phones, directly competing with Symbian, Microsoft and others. Not that Microsoft is any competitor to talk about at this time, so if anything it's really about knocking out Symbian from the smart phone and soon feature phone pedistals. Meanwhile most feature/volume phones are based on more or less proprietary solutions.
Palm is ironically instead taking the Microsoft route, also leaving Palm OS behind.
Access: foreseeing the demise of the Palm OS - Computer Business Review
