Symbian licensing and PalmOS... inevitable? (Score 1)

Back in October, Palm and Symbian announced they were discussing how to move to a common API, with source level compatibility.

Now go figure - Palm is a 16bit OS with a flakey TCP/IP stack, atrocious multitasking and zilch knowledge of CDMA or GSM air interfaces, or Bluetooth... but a well-established UI

Symbian's OS has great TCP/IP stack, real multi-threading and a peachy asynchonous programming model, comes with all the air interfaces and Bluetooth built-in - and a UI no one gives a shit about...

It's not too hard to see that PalmOS is really just gonna be a Palm UI onto Symbian's OS, but the Palm guys are too up their own asses to admit it.

The bottom line is that Palm needs the Symbian technology alot more than Symbian needs Palm's branding.

Check The Register's reports or this or read about Quartz ... Palm's not going to survive without Symbian...