PalmSource sale won't kill Palm OS

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What OS does iPod run?

iPod is the most sucessful device since the original Palm, yet I've never seen a single comment on the OS - I wonder why.

I am sick of people comparing devices based soley on the OS. Palm OS will like morph into a version of Linux - most mobile phones are already heading that way. The most popular phone OS (symbian) is already Linux.

In the end, people don't want to install applications on their PDAs, phones, personal devices. They don't even want to be bothered with the concept of files or files systems - they just want to work with data, be it music, voice, imagery, text, whatever. They don't care about networks - LANs, bluetooth, GPRS, etc. - they just want to use the thing and for the device to just work.

Music decices don't ask where you want to store songs, they are just stored. That's where the future is, and that is where PDAs are going too.

There will be a huge variety of devices offering different combinations of functions, but the underlying concept of a compter with an OS, applications and files will vanish.

The secret is standards. If vendors build to open standards then it won't matter what to OS or applications are, they'll just work - just like iTunes/iTMS. Granted that's an utterly proprietary model, but it shows the way.

Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 09/10/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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