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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (1502)	8/31/2000 4:20:26 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 6784

But presumably a new OS for say a 32 bit StrongArm OS would not run on the old Dragonball based Palm's? And any new apps written for the StrongArm wouldn't run on the older Palm's either? That is a very safe assumption, and does raise the issue of multiple app versions floating around out there for a couple of years. Who knows, though; considering the extra costs of maintaining and stocking two types of everything, it may even be in Palm's interests to offer a very aggressive trade-up program just to clear the transition phase ASAP. To be honest, I'm not very worried about the transition. If a company that was as organizationally screwed up as Apple was a few years back could pull of a similiar transition, I'm confident PALM can do it, too. Only better. EDIT: I mean no disrepect to Apple. In fact, of all the box makers they're the only ones that seem to be dialed in to what consumers are going to want - and as I type this on my Dell laptop I'm anxiously waiting to take possession of a shiny new Cube. And I would love for Apple to "do PALM" :-)