Since Palm OS split from Palm devices that opened them up to the an unholy union of Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 (FKA WinCE, WinXP mobile, Pocket PC, etc. . . .) on a Palm Treo device. Even with all the marketing Microsoft has put into encouraging adoption of their OS, including licensing the OS to a huge variety of hardware manufactures, Palm still dominates the market. Not sure what this will do to the mix, but I suspect it will really hurt the sales of all the other Microsoft OS devices and the Blackberry.
Interestingly, the Treo actually originated with Handspring, which was a company started by a couple engineers who left US Robotics shortly after they released the Palm Pilot. US Robotics was purchased by 3Com, and the name was changed to Palm because of a trademark conflict with Pilot pens. Later Palm was spun off from 3Com as PalmOne. Then it split into Palm and Palm Source, with the later making the OS and the former making the devices. At some point in there Palm purchased Handspring, keeping only their Treo product line, which is the most popular, and one of the first, PDA & Phone combos. Of course all of that is just by my best recollection, so feel free to correct me.
With Compact Framework the Microsoft devices are a whole lot more appealing since they are much easier to program on. Although Palm OS has Pocket Pascal.
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