You can connect Palms together to swap info. The post PC era refers to ubiquitous computing where people can interact with a network wherever they are. The Palm looks to capitalize on this shift. Ten years from now, people will still use word processors and will still browse the web. MS is being locked out of this space since Palm invented the palmtop computing field.
Palms are great because they are interconnectable.
They can t connect to Windows CE devices. In the time this case has been litigated, the software market has changed greatly and the opportunities to innovate have increased greatly. To tell MS it is a monopoly and then prohibiting it from competing in new areas is bad. DOJ argues that there is no room for people to enter the field. That isn t true anymore.