Goodbye PalmOS… though I never particularly loved thee.

The Newton was cool and visionary – despite the hype, a rarity for Apple. The Psion took your handheld apps only approach and did it oh so much better.  The Portfolio (I had one!) and the LX series brought smiles to geeks faces. And the Zaurus (SL series) is a nice try, particularly the Japan-only models (Plus, they use dog breeds for internal names, including the Tosa, the baddest dog on the face of the Earth.  No Shiba yet).

But the PalmOS was designed to be elegantly simple and useable.  That’s not really what people want in a $300+ handheld computer – people actually do want a variety of functions.  And it’s why Windows Mobile – which isn’t horrible – won out.

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