Woz - 8:24 am on Jun 11, 2002 (gmt 0)

According to this article [news.zdnet.co.uk] from ZDnet, "Palm, the maker of personal digital assistants, said on Monday that it will launch a Chinese-language version of its popular operating system within a year and that it hopes to win market share of at least 20 percent within two years of entering China."

That is a HUUUUUGE market and I am surprised PALM has not made a assertive push for market share before now. As the article states, "The Chinese market is dominated by local companies selling PDAs that use proprietary operating systems."

That was certainly my experience whilst there. However these systems are totally self contained and do not "talk" to PC's.

There are Chinese OS overlays available, I found one programmed by a chap just up the road in fact, er, that's 1 hours drive in China. I believe he is doing a roaring trade with Chinese all over the world who want their Palm's to be quad-lingual.

It will be interesting to see how well PALM do this and how much inroads to the market they actually make.

Onya
Woz