If they actually implement local (USB) hotsync there will be a market. Just google < "palm pre" hotsync > to get an idea. Even Palm seem to have pitched the baby out with the bathwater on this one: not everybody wants to keep or even move their personal data through the cloud. As the sidekick has recently reminded us.

ALP originally was going to offer a forward-looking hotsync, not just the legacy system now provided (sort of) by Motion Apps' classic. What's it going to be, Emblaze?

Dunno about adding ALP to an existing phone, probably need custom hardware interface code for each phone.

But looks like Emblaze is in the process of releasing a couple of ALP phones (one now, one in 2009) and there are claims of more to come.

Actually, ALP is part of LiMo, so saying LiMo doesn't necessarily exclude ALP. Asked an Access rep at SF LinuxWorld and he remarked (with the usual disclaimer that the OEMs don't tell them anything) that Samsung is still pinging them with dev-related ALP questions. Perhaps not time to abandon all hope just yet.

My own guess, and that's all it is, is that Samsung is spooked by the iPhone's traction and wants something that provides a little more marketing ammo. Doesn't exclude ALP, but probably means that the UI which was demo'd a year ago needs a few tweaks. btw, saw touch-scrolling work on ALP at the recent LinuxWorld, very pretty.

Time to sit back and practice the zen of new handset non-anticipation. :-)

Regarding downloadable replacing discs: who's
ready for (original) divx again? Pay per view forever -- studios would love that.

I almost wonder if the studios didn't encourage dual disc formats just to give distribution bandwidth growth a chance to catch up.