Palm announced that it will begin building future Treos using Windows instead of the Palm OS, according to the New York Times. I know that the Palm guys will try as hard as they can to preserve the look and feel and usability of the Treo. I know that they are making this switch because they can't get what they need out of the Palm OS, since development of that OS has been mismanaged and misdirected over multiple generations. But I also know that I won't get the same Treo I have now: The article says that GoodLink won't work at first. And every other Palm app is going to have to be rewritten. And Windows has a habit of making everything less useable. So I just don't think Treo will continue to be an option, at least for me. Maybe at long last, Steve Jobs and the Apple corps will develop a really useable PDA that works really well with the Macintosh? Hope and dream.
Darn. I'd only just managed to get free of the Blackberry and start using a Treo the way I always wanted to, even though Goodlink is so poorly integrated, I lost the ability to email photos, beam contacts, and do other basic Treo tasks.
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