Posted By
Crown
on 2007-02-28
18:32:32
|  Re: New emulator with Plus/4 support is developed
Palm is pretty much dead, they haven't innovated in a long time now. Their last version of the PalmOS was very flawed, and the way they choose to deal with backwards compatibility was absolutely nonsense. Old devices were 68k based and even the new (pretty old now) ARM based devices are emulating 68k most of the time, and writing native ARM code was really complicated the last time I checked. There was no true multithreading, and there are serious limits on the size of memory an application can allocate continously. They also stopped developing the PalmOS, and bought some Chinese company which in theory works on a Linux based OS incorporating the Palm UI. But this was news like a year and a half ago, and nothing came out of that yet.
No wonder they started shipping devices based on Windows Mobile.
Given that the PDA and Smartphone market is pretty much dominated by Windows Mobile now, and the only interesting newcomer is the IPhone, Palm will have a really hard time, to recapture the imagination of the people, and raise interest for development.
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