Palm Creates Awards for Applications

It took me about 20 seconds to find that out. Please do some basic research *before* you start complaining.

The winner does not relenquish ownership of their product, hence Palm can not legally bundle / sell the product. "Copy" does not grant licensing priveledges. It only means that Palm can show the product to potential customers. The winner's sales will increase, and if the product is really good (e.g. Datebook) perhaps another company will pick it up.

Now, let's compare this to our "friends" in Redmonton. If you are a potential developer for PocketPC, go out and read some of the books which describe, first-hand the way Microsoft squashes developers that it can't buy. A good place to start is a book written by the head of GO (a tablet computer manufacturer in the early 90's). How long do you think you'd be allowed to keep up your web site entitled "microsoftinfocenter" or "microsoftguru" or "microsoftstation"?

Common conventional wisdom, but patently untrue. Mergers and acquisitions are used when it is provably better than the strongarm tactics. In this way, Microsoft is no different from any other company out there (no surprise), except that Microsoft has both an unfair business position and an almost limitless supply of capitol in order to consider both options. (BTW, according to US law, neither are illegal)

Why not look at the case of say... Stak vs. Microsoft.

(Pardon the puns).

Nobody argues with that - and you know that.
Yor remark is fishy.
MS would pay a free world travel to everybody if they could get by that more URL's, usergroups and programs to include PPC.

The whole idea to punch the friends is outright stupid - this cannot be argued - the damage cannot be undone by slapping the Palm friends here again.
I would recommend you concentrate more on better products and making your grumbling investors smile - not on hitting here your most devoted followers - how about that?

in PPC land, one company can die and nobody care, it's what hottest netxt item that count. And what hot next are Genio and NEC.

what you see below it the death of Palm device. I don't think Palm Inc can out innovate NEC or Toshiba in term of hardware manufacturing, they may not be as good at consumer electronic as Sony, but they are better in computer manufacturing. Enjoy.

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I'm sure there a lot of Palm sharholders who wish things were as bad for Palm stock.

Besides it's still up in air as to which division HP will keep in the PocketPC market. Tales of iPaq's death are premature.

Having said that, I hope that PalmOS can make inroads into the corporate market. The market seems clutterred with two things. 1) People using overpowered PocketPCs in vertical apps where a Palm would do the job more efficiently and cheaper and 2) A lot of Palms given to marketting and PR types where it just is a glorified address book.

Both are bad.

Companies should be using PocketPCs in high mobility applications as a replacement to their notebook computers, and those custom vertical apps should be written for PalmOS.

If you want to see how rampant this is, ask any of your friends who work for large companies how many PDA's they have in the stockroom after they laid off all the marketting types.

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