{"id":141,"date":"2009-11-21T02:42:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=141"},"modified":"2011-01-22T22:52:39","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T06:52:39","slug":"palms-history-of-imitating-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2009\/11\/21\/palms-history-of-imitating-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Palm’s history of imitating Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously there’s the whole thing about the Palm Pre versus the iPhone, but Palm has had a tradition of following Apple’s moves, even ignoring the direct comparisons between the Palm Pilot and the Apple Newton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Apple<\/th>\nPalm\/PalmSource<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Licensed its operating system to other hardware manufacturers, which hurt the platform in the long-run.<\/td>\nLicensed its operating system to other hardware manufacturers, which hurt the platform in the long-run.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CodeWarrior-based development environment for 68K applications.<\/td>\nCodeWarrior-based development environment for 68K applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Underwent a hardware transition from Motorola 68K to PowerPC to Intel, going from a big-endian architecture to a little-endian one.<\/td>\nUnderwent a hardware transition from Motorola 68K to ARM, going from a big-endian architecture to a little-endian one.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transitioned from 68K to PowerPC with System 7, which used an emulation layer to run old 68K applications. Much of the operating system was PowerPC-native, but portions (especially user applications) were still 68K-based.<\/td>\nTransitioned from 68K to ARM with Palm OS 5, which used an emulation layer to run old 68K applications. Most of the operating system was ARM-native, but it did not officially support fully ARM-native user applications (with some exceptions).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Attempted to replace its traditional operating system with a modern, fully PowerPC-native one (Copland) but failed.<\/td>\nAttempted to replace its traditional operating system with a modern, fully ARM-native one (Cobalt) but failed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Considered acquiring Be to use BeOS as its modern operating system.<\/td>\nActually acquired Be and used portions of BeOS in Cobalt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Its modern operating system, Mac OS X, is based on the Unix operating system.<\/td>\nPalm’s modern operating systems, webOS, is based on Linux, a Unix-like operating system. PalmSource’s modern operating system, ALP<\/acronym>, also is based on Linux.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It’s a shame that Cobalt was stillborn; I think an upgraded version of Palm OS would have been exactly what I wanted. (ALP could be it, but it still hasn’t shipped on any actual devices, and being so late to the party, I suspect it might end up suffering the same fate as Cobalt.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously there’s the whole thing about the Palm Pre versus the iPhone, but Palm has had a tradition of following Apple’s moves, even ignoring the direct comparisons between the Palm Pilot and the Apple Newton. Apple Palm\/PalmSource Licensed its operating system to other hardware manufacturers, which hurt the platform in the long-run. Licensed its operating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-palm-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}