[rescue] The fat lady. . .

[Ken Hansen]

On Thursday, December 27, 2001, at 05:55 PM, Mike Nicewonger wrote:

> I am really stumped here. Just what does Palm want with Be anyway?????

IMHO it makes perfect sense, if you think 2-4 years out. Palm makes 
efficient, purpose-built devices (well, Flextronics makes them, but that 
is another story) for personal information storage/retrieval, right?

If they want to grow to larger, AC-powered devices for the home (think 
TiVo, Audrey, etc.), would they want to make their own OS from scratch 
(like they did for the Palm), or take something off the shelf 
ready-to-go?

I have nothing to base this on, except my own opinions and ruminations, 
but it seems a logical extension - besides, it gets them more office 
space (maybe at a *reasonable* rate), some more quality developers, and 
a nice embedded OS to boot.

Another thought, they may be able to milk the revenue stream for 
Be-based products in the pipeline at other manufacturers...

Ken

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