[Person Man]

To the mods: sorry to post this as a separate topic, but my reply would go unnoticed if posted in the other thread.

People are getting mad at PalmSource for leaving Macintosh support to third parties in Palm OS 6. That's fine. BUT, most people are getting PalmSource and PalmOne and Palm, Inc. confused.

This is an attempt to straighten people out:

Palm, Inc. recently split from one company (OS and hardware) into two. PalmSource (the OS developer) and PalmOne (the hardware maker).

PalmOne makes the Zire and the Tungsten series. They license the OS from PalmSource, just like other Palm platform hardware makers.

The week that PalmSource announced they would be leaving Macintosh support to third party developers, PalmOne made an announcement reaffirming Macintosh support in their products.

This will mean that PalmOne will be one of the "third parties" to offer support for Palm OS 6, or that they will include Mac support from another third party in the box with their Palm OS 6 devices, negating the need to spend extra money to buy such support.

Now, if they (PalmOne) don't do either of the above as far as OS 6 is concerned, THEN you can get angry.

[f1000]

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=6790

Rumor: Dell May Buy palmOne?

Rumors floating around wall street that Dell is interested in a takeover of palmOne sent stock shares of palmOne higher in trading yesterday.

The uncorroborated rumor was posted in a note on the stock site Briefing.com. It stated, Dell (DELL $35.78 +1.3%) rose after Banc of America raised its rating to Buy from Neutral. DELL has started offering companies a zero interest lease for PCs. There were rumors floating around of a possible Dell takeover of PalmOne (PLMO $18.21 +12.5%), which is certainly feasible and a deal would create synergies for both companies.

Shares of palmOne were up 12% in trading wednesday based on the news.

Are we angry yet?