It's been festering / stewing in my tiny brain for some time now, and I've finally figured it out (I posted this in a comment elsewhere, and decided to expand on it here.)
2003 - Palm announces it will spin off Palm OS.
2005 - Palm announces it will be using Windows mobile for its Treo phones.
2008 - Palm moves back to an in-house OS: WebOS.
2010 - Palm is bought out.
The differences are slight. Nokia bought Symbian so that it could spin it off as an open source OS. Nokia's announcement earlier this year that it was moving away from Symbian to WP7, is notable in how the market reacted. Just as Palm saw its market share decline as WebOS was anticipated, so has Nokia's, except of course Nokia is much larger.
That's not to say that Nokia will follow exactly the same path, but I sure see the similarities building up...Palm's PDA / mobile expertise was supposedly key to WebOS' success, but it never transpired. If the first WP7 phone from Nokia fails to garner much consumer attention, it'll be eerily similar to WebOS' introduction via the Palm Pre....lots of fanfare of WP7 Mango + Nokia.
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