Interesting article on Palm's imminent demise:
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=14460
Some excerpts from the article:
Kaufman Bros analyst Shaw Wu cut his rating on the shares to "sell" from "hold".
"While we believe Palm has some value with its webOS …we are unsure of the company’s prospects as an ongoing concern," he said in a client note.
This excerpt explains why this is relevant in this thread:
Much like Windows Mobile, PalmOS stagnated for more than 3 years while the company developed and re-developed a next generation OS in secret, and of course launched without any backward compatibility and with a very small amount of applications. Much like Windows Phone 7, the OS was also lauded for its breakthrough user interface concepts and ability to mesh with cloud services. In the case of WebOS this has clearly not translated into sales.
While Microsoft is of course not at all dependent on their mobile business, hopefully their Windows phone division will manage this feat better.
Interesting stuff there. Microsoft better be careful here. They seem to be following down the exact same path Palm did.