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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (11776)	6/24/1998 10:02:00 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Nokia, Ericsonn & Motorola have agreed to use Psion's OS for their cell phones: exchange2000.com. They claim this will be an open system, anyone can join the consortium that will own it, and anyone may use the OS, for a fee. I hope so. Otherwise it suggests a new avenue of competition. If a host of clever software is developped by independent companies for phones that use the Psion system but which doesn't run on Qcom phones, then we might have problems. Qcom could develop all its own software (Apple) or use MSFT. Either way another fight over standards could develop. Am I paranoid? Or, possibly, the operating system will not be such a big deal. To my mind there is a limit to what people will want to do with their cell phone, PDA Communicator, or whatever. Friends and colleagues of mine who had programmable calculators rarely programmed them; they used them as an ordinary calculator and used a bigger computer for programming.