"Palm has always been committed to open platforms for developers. And Palm has the added differentiation of being able to tightly integrate the software platform with our hardware design, which we believe gives us an advantage in delivering a great user experience.

Palm customers have benefited from the availability of Google services on Palm's platform, such as Google Maps for mobile on Palm OS. And we look forward to further collaboration with Google to offer great user experiences on Palm products."

It's no surprise that Palm isn't aligned with Google and their Android Linux-based operating system. Palm has been working on their own Linux-based mobile operating system for years;) In all seriousness, Palm has too much invested (money and time) in their Linux-based Palm OS to join forces with Google. Hopefully Palm will ship devices running their Linux-based OS before Android-based devices ship. One can only hope...

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