Access Linux Platform and Palm
So, we all know that palm has made a deal to keep Frankengarnet around “indefinitely” and that they can “modify” it all the want. And we all know where that statement is going I think. But now in other news, it appears the Access Linux Platform is being pushed back a bit from the timeline they had hoped to deliever it to developers in. Story here:
http://www.smartphonetoday.com/articles/2006/12/2006-12-12-Release-of-ACCESS.html
Now I can say (due to a little inside information) that I know for a fact they always intended for a release in 2007, so the date originally quoted for 2006 was at most a “optimistic” view. But there sheer thought of palm deciding to keep playing with it’s ancient OS instead of moving on to ALP, which is really the only logical move to get Palm OS up to a modern day OS, is just plain disturbing. I surely hope palm sees that they can not keep Palm OS alive without completely moving it’s operational basis. Linux will do that for them, and ALP is that gateway. Opinions?
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Given that PalmOS is still a better OS for the majority of people, there’s no rush. WM5 isn’t much competition.
Access’ smartest move would be to keep palms simplicity and user-friendlyness but drop the palm program support. In all honesty, palms “event driven” programming is what killed previous attempts at multitasking, making an “emulator” and making it a core part of the operating system invites future failure. There are a lot of linux programs and developers, far more so than Palm, so why sandbag it with what made palm fail? Evolution dictates that the elements that are succesful survive, and those elements that arent successful are eliminated. So PalmOS is easy to learn and use by the lesser primates (oops I mean palm users)… Fine keep that bit, that is an element that linux needs to incorporate… because as powerful as linux may be… its damned befuddling to most. Hopefully the “palm” part of “palm linux” doesnt screw it up for the long haul.
Hi, just found you. May I offer my two cents?
Absolutely agree with your post.
I am hanging on with Palm only because I could tweak it with Zlauncher to at least appear better and have a little more functionality and I am loath to try Windows Mobile. Just worried about more of their bloated consumptive software and the usual virus vulnerabilities.
Even Apple saw the value of a switch after many generations to the Unix platform for their further growth, so I hope Palm could see fit to switch to even a Linux paltform to run in the background behind something more user friendly like a ‘Zlauncher’ of sorts.
I am not too familiar with Linux or its ‘befuddling’ qualities, but someone has to step up with a good Windows alternative for mobile computing. Sad that Apple is still frozen, and the i-pod varient I have seen a shot of, still looks blazeh, not even close to the old Newton days let alone the general current interfaces.
Please pardon this ‘lesser primate’ Treo650 owner but alas I wanted an all in one jack knife and that was the peak of Palm in Canada at the time.
I have been tweaking my brother’s old Tungsten T2 to ZLauncher and more memory but I have found these units are all so fussy different regardless of the OS. ie. can’t handle a 2G SD card. (took a bit to sort that little quandary out)
Forgive my rookie dialogue, but glad to have found your site and hope to grow more from your content. Cheers