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

To: Mark Fleming who wrote (3968)	3/1/2001 3:20:35 PM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

If you really believe Nokia has less of value than Palm, I suggest you try to build a working Palm and a working handset from scratch. Come back and tell us which was the more difficult task. Good heavens, there are Palm emulators available for free! Isn't it the case that PALM doesn't even own the kernal its using? Then what exactly does PALM provide...a UI? Some connectivity hooks? People are homebrewing handhelds, not cellphones. What Nokia etc make, Palm has to buy, and adding a phone to a Palm is a lot more expensive than adding a PIM to a handset. it has to be a Palm OS so it can be compatible with the rest of the world That isn't true. The "rest of the world" doesn't care that you are a Palm, it only cares that when it speaks to you across the internet it understands what you say back. Just as almost no internet sites care if you're running Mac, Windoze, or Linux, most of the "rest of the world" won't give a whooey if you're running Palm, a (royalty-free) Palm clone, or whatever. Nokia's dominance is nearing an end You seem fixated on NOK. It was just an example. Who the Big Daddy of handset makers will be five years from now is anyone's guess. But whoever it is will have eaten Palm's lunch.