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Hang on. That's not true. At one time the ELSE phone was hyped. http://youtu.be/M4sVGR5uRhc

It went nowhere, but at least it was something at one time.

Similarly the BeOS platform morphed into Palm OS 6 (Cobalt), which only ever appeared in sample quantities from a phone OEM. (This was well after Palm spun off their OS business, but before PalmSource was acquired by ACCESS)

...and then technology from Palm OS Cobalt, the Binder, migrated with engineers from that team to become part of the low-level system interface in Android.

The saddest video I've seen in a long time ;-)

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