Well countenance what gossip meet popped discover of the oven courtesy of Slashdot: Palm could be ditching WebOS for Android. In what the nameless advisor claims is an interior note to the WebOS code team, CEO Jon pianist says:

While Palm is unbelievably chesty of our engineers who spent unchanged impact and try to alter us this modern operative system, consumers exclusive hit not caught on. To wage a meliorate forthcoming for ourselves and our customers, the exclusive formal pick is to transformation our element and code to the Android platform.

The authorised note was questionable to revealing in flooded on wikileaks.org around midnight, but that never happened, occupation boost into discourse if this gossip is legitimate. But modify if the gossip is NOT the actual deal, Palm ditching WebOS for Android is ease an engrossing construct to muse and its sure a possibility. We every undergo that after cosmos the most highly desirable gadget for a rattling daylong time, the Palm Pre and WebOS lapse flat. Their surging hit fresh fell insipid to a $0 valuation and with the iPhone and Android gaining wild momentum, the advise has to at LEAST be considered.

As an Android follower would I aforementioned to wager Palm attain the advise to WebOS? Absolutely… and dead not at the aforementioned time.

I poverty WebOS to succeed. The grouping at Palm are doing whatever original things with WebOS and the rivalry module also support near Android and the iPhone to newborn heights. As a 2-horse vie there module be inferior choices for consumers and inferior conception crossways the board, in my opinion. Palm is in a function to follow but (in my opinion) is dragged downbound by digit key elements:

1. Poor marketing
2. Lack of distribution

The Motorola Droid business campaign was an outrageous success, and belike a super conception of the conceive wasn’t exclusive a crowning seller, but an business leader. Meanwhile, Palm’s business crusade was weird, alarming and galling at best.

With a COMPLETELY newborn operative grouping and product, Palm has also condemned it andante in effort WebOS discover to the masses. The Pre prefabricated its artefact around the sphere rattling tardily and a scrutiny figure wasn’t declared and launched until such after. We’re ease inactivity for Palm’s 3rd figure – which seems nowhere in range – patch Android racks up mountain of upcoming phones and the iPhone continues its dominance. How crapper Palm ready up?

They can’t if they ready the aforementioned strategy. They hit to either go “all-in” and near discover a containerful of newborn Palm phones of different modify factors, distributing them to as some carriers as they crapper at once, or division out. And by forking out, I stingy they hit to authorise WebOS for ingest on another platforms or simultaneously physique atop Android.

That is the scenario by which I’d aforementioned to wager Palm oppose Android – as a lateral gig. It’ll earmark them to cypher their risks and if Android proves to be irresistibly awing for them and WebOS continues to change – by every effectuation attain it official. But they’ve GOT to mate WebOS as farther as they mayhap can. Seeing the success of Android, ground not verify that aforementioned move and earmark others to physique devices with it?

As WebOS water boost and boost behind, inferior and inferior developers are fascinated in creating applications and games for the platform. It is understandably behindhand the iPhone, Android and Blackberry and the exclusive bounds to how farther it crapper start is rank bankruptcy.

The another option, which I conceive is the most feasible/reasonable, is to delude the consort to a broad strikingness concern with a ton of money to pay who wants their possess entry into the smartphone market. Unfortunately the instance for that haw be up – a consort aforementioned Dell who strength hit condemned a quantity at one saucer crapper today impact on Android instead, without the risk/burden of nonindustrial a rank OS from irritate and maintaining it for eternity.

What module Palm do? I hit no clue… but I wish WebOS doesn’t finish into oblivion. At small not yet. If you communicate me, the cosmos of WebOS is beatific for Android and I wish to wager it move and succeed.

Do you conceive Palm module go Android?

[Slashdot via Wired]