The PALM OS – Way Beyond WAP
Readers have already gotten a taste of the wireless possibilities of e-commerce and the word WAP is clearly on everyone’s lips. I am, therefore, all the more determined to widen the spectrum on wireless and mobile ways of doing business and take you well beyond WAP.
Allow me then to take you into the wonderful world of the palm OS. This is the system that today powers over 75% of the worldwide personal mobile handhelds market.
It all began in 1996 when palm.com introduced the original Pilot 1000 running on the palm OS. To most professionals who wanted an easy way to manage the coming and goings of business, trips, desktop and office work, Palm’s pilot was an attractive option.