“Having created a market for palmtops, having seen just how
much money can flow in from such devices, why should Jeff Hawkins
— and Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan — be restricted to a line
of PalmOS devices?“
“The answer is: they are not. The future is: PalmOS devices will
be nothing more than a SINGLE PRODUCT LINE out of the fast-growing
Handspring corporate offices.”
“Depending on how quickly they can ramp things up, you can
expect to see Handspring devices that are entirely run via Linux,
possibly even the BeOS. If Apple still intends to enter the palmtop
market, it might be via a joint-venture with Handspring, and that
unit can contain an OS that was written by Apple, with *no*
royalties flowing into the coffers of Palm Computing. Java,
heralded as another Next Big Thing, can also find its way into a
Handspring device.”