Goodbye Palm, hello Access Linux Platform
The Palm OS has officially ceased to be, giving way to Access Linux Platform. But analysts say the platform's future is unpredictable.
Future iterations of the Palm operating system (OS) will no longer bear that name.
Instead — as predicted since Palm sold its PalmSource OS division to Japanese firm Access last year — it is now called Access Linux Platform (ALP).
Access made the announcement on Wednesday as it revealed a new brand identity to make the transition away from Palm, and a new global Web site.
"A lot of people have to buy into this at the end of the day," said Ovum analyst Tony Cripps on Thursday. "We've seen Orange pledge some support to ALP, but we have to see handsets that this platform is running on — we haven't seen that yet."
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Goodbye, PalmOS
One major reason I bought a PalmPilot instead of a PDA running WindowsCE (or whatever they're calling it these days) was because I didn't want Bill Gates to own the world.
Now it's been a year since Palm released a PalmOS-based PDA and their latest smartphone runs Windows. Not good.
Best of luck to Access. I hope they succeed where Palm failed.
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