“Palm isn’t dead yet! That’s the word from Palm CEO Ed Colligan,
speaking at the recent media launch of the Palm Centro in
Australia. To hear him tell it, the once-pioneering handheld maker
is set to come roaring back onto the stage with new products, a new
focus, and a brand-new, Linux-based OS, code-named Nova.“But Palm has been saying the same thing for nearly a decade.
And I can’t say that I buy it this time. From where I sit, Palm
seems to have lost focus on one of the most important contributors
to its early success: the independent developer community…”