Following the release of a more web oriented OS in 2009, dubbed Palm 2.0 for now, Palm's Ed Colligan plans to roll out a new prosumer line of devices.
APC Magazine reports today that Palm co-founder and CEO Ed Colligan is destined to bring the Palm fleet back on track in 2009, by introducing an all-new operating system -- dubbed Palm 2.0 for now -- that will take web services seriously. Although third-party applications for Palm OS have always been a key, the new approach towards web services will add a new dimension to the Palm concept as a whole.
There's a good chance that a large part of those who developed Palm OS applications back in the old days, are now occupied in web application development. A fact that Palm is likely perfectly aware of, and as such, the company may want to take advantage of the extra buzz it would generate to release an operating system that invites the web app developer community to engage.
However, Colligan recognizes the fact that web apps alone will take you nowhere. And after all, the competing platforms already offer increasingly usuful web apps today. As such, Palm is planning to roll out a new prosumer brand that will slot in between the Centro and Treo lines. In the future, the Centro line will aim at consumers like now, while the Treo line will become slightly more enterprise oriented than today.
Colligan also told APC that the concept around Foleo could return in some way or another, a concept that could give birth to more compelling products in the prosumer market than business and enterprise markets.
Only time will tell how this is going to play out for Palm though, so we'll just have to wait and see what the company's master plan will actually result in when it comes to end-user products in 2009.
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