When you think about celebrities and mobile devices, what platform do you think about?  I am guessing that most people probably think about Blackberries.  Considering all of the fuss about President Obama and his Blackberry, is it really a surprise?  I know that some celebs have been using iPhones lately, but Blackberries have always been one of their top phones.  RIM likes to do things like launch parties for their new devices that almost always involve some red carpet event to make celebs feel right at home.

Well…how has pimping their smartphones out to celebrities helped them lately?  Read on…

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If you do, then you might be using a Palm OS device right now.  Palm has been slowly dying for a couple of years now.  I guess the good thing is that they have realized it, but did they realize it too late?  To plug some holes in their business, they licensed Windows Mobile.  So now they just confused their customers.  I work as a support technician, and I constantly see people that are trying to buy Palm software for their Treo 800W or Treo Pro because it has the Palm name on it.  Now Palm is going to confuse their customers even more when they find out that there is (at this point) no upgrade path to allow all of their Palm OS programs to run on their new WebOS software.

As a developer, do you want to throw your support behind a company like Palm?

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Hackintoshing – verb

1: Taking a perfectly good PC and attempting to install Mac OSX 10.5.6 using a questionably obtained ISO.

2: Placing your face in your palm while repeatedly installing an operating system not natively meant for your computer hard ware.

3. Winning the battle but losing the war.

Related Words for: Hackintoshing

frustration, annoyance, masochism, repetition

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