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Palm and RIM both straddled that divide.

• masklinn 14y ago
  Kinda. So did Nokia. I don't really know that much about Palm's historical skill at software, but I do know Nokia was not very good at it, especially the usability part, and RIM had reached a place where they were content to remain (keyboard phones for enterprise markets, even though their phones were more popular with texting teens in europe) static until "somebody" got a bullet in each of their knees.
  • justincormack 14y ago
    The Palm software was OK but it really succeeded because of the app store. Third party apps were huge in the Palm heyday.
• TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
  Palm split into PalmOne (hardware) and PalmSource (software), though.
• bane 14y ago
  To be fair, everybody who makes hardware makes some software. I think the difference is that Apple does it not just as a side-project to make the hardware turn on, but as a serious and well integrated part of the holistic device production.