Interesting email received from George which continues the webOS debate-

Shaun,

I recently had a conversation with a PALM developer about the WebOS. It went something like this …

The WebOS was the wrong move at the wrong time and Palm is not that likely to survive these mistakes. Sad, but true. Yes, its slick, but so was Sonys Beta format and it lost out to the technologically inferior VHS. And its not clear that the WebOS is even technically superior to java environments like Android or mature environments like the Mac OS. If they had been smart, they would have come out with a Linux-based device with a solid JVM – they could have done that 3-4 years ago and that would have been quite a device as it would have run many Java apps out of the box and opened up the vast library of Java applications (not to mention an environment that is familiar to most programmers.

They missed a great opportunity to dominate the market by getting FDH (Fat, Dumb & Happy) as so many companies do (Microsoft has always run scared of losing the market in spite of their early dominating position, and thats why they continue to dominate the market IMHO).

This was in response to a request for a favorite PALM OS app to be ported to the WebOS. The comment really crystalized what happened to PALM and didnt give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the future of PALM.

Just thought I would share it with you guys.

George