Re: [NTLK] OT Palm Pre

Jon,
While the newtons didn't have the best OS upgrade support at least apple tried to do something with the ROM based resources they had. I can understand the very early palms not being upgradeable for the same reasons as the Newton but I found info on palm Vx upgrades (3.5.3 to 4.1) and that device was a 1999 model so they must have been using flash in the treos/tungstens for the OS and as such there is only one excuse for them to not offer upgrades and that's greed, which is the same reason they changed the charger/accessory connector on the 650 IMHO. Had the newtons lived on (officially with new models) into the same time period as the treos/tungstens they surely would've used flash and been upgradeable so the Newton 120/2000 (1995/1997) to palm OS 4/5 devices(2001/2002) is an apples to oranges comparison even though by your own admission apple did offer upgrades for said devices. As for web OS 1.1, they put a lot of .x and .x.y numbers behind the dead horse that is palm OS 5 (which they are STILL beating tod
ay) so I'll trust they have changed when I see V2 and V3 in the same decade (they've been beating OS 5 for going on 6 years after all). Palms money troubles are their own fault, they were the leaders in the PDA market, they bought the palm OS smartphone leaders (handspring) and then they promptly shot themselves in the foot.... repeatedly, with really big guns that take really big bullets (Denis Leary reference lol) so I don't give them any slack for having less resources, they did it to themselves. I loved early palms when they came out (I hadn't really used a Newton yet :-) and the fact that they seemed to be a good, forward moving company which prompted my later treo/tungsten purchases but I soon found out just how much they fell off the wagon after they were spun off. I hope they come back and return to the Palm Computing of old, but I'll believe it when I see it as the modern Palm Inc (PalmOne) has lost my trust.
Joe Reilly
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From: Jon Glass
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Sent: Jul 18, 2009 03:09

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 8:07 AM, <Reilly001os@aol.com> wrote:
> None of the ones I had could take an upgrade, was there ever a palm that could take an OS upgrade?

Newtons couldn't either--ok, I paid $100 to have my MP120 upgraded to
NOS 2.0, but that was a hardware change as much as anything. The only
other system upgrade I recall Apple offering was a similar upgrade of
the MP2000 to MP2100. Handhelds have/had their OS in ROM, not easy to
upgrade. Since the iPhone and Pre have their OS in software, it is
actually possible. BTW, there is already a WebOS 1.1 out there, so it
looks like they will be improving--probably slower than Apple, though.
Palm doesn't have anywhere near the resources that Apple has to bring
to bear to these things.

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 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
"I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus
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