[rohitv]

Steve Jobs.

[bluedino]

True. And at least they got a working OS out of the deal instead of futzing with Copland or Taligent for who knows how long.

Imagine if our iPhones ran BeOS.

[protomyth]

I love BeOS and had NeXTSTEP 3.3 (& later OpenStep) and BeOS running in my office. There was no real comparison, NeXTSTEP was better in every way except doing video demos. It was easier to program and had a decent UNIX. NeXTSTEP was multi-user. BeOS was superior to quite a lot of the other OSes at the time though.

We will really never know, but I suspect there were some serious problems when Palm bought the code and couldn't build a phone / PDA OS out of it.

[memsom]

Palm bought the talent not the OS.

[protomyth]

Is there a source to that? I seem to remember quite a lot of excitement as a proven company bought the OS.

[afandian]

We can dream!