I guess I (and TealPoint Software) should have seen this coming. Palm has sent TealPoint a “Cease-and-Desist” warning over their TealOS app, which adds the Palm Web OS “look and feel” to Palm OS devices.

TealPoint confirmed this on their TealTalk forums:

Hi folks.

I’m sorry to say that at Palm’s request, as of this upcoming Monday, March 30, we will no longer be selling or distributing TealOS.

We really appreciate the help and unprecedented enthusiasm so many of you have shown for this product. It’s been a long time since we experienced this kind of customer cooperation, and the program’s success came at a badly needed time. We wish we could continue contributing to this great community.

For those of you who have already purchased the product, your copies will continue to function, of course, but we encourage you to download the latest beta copies to insure you have a stable version you are happy with and back it up to a safe place, as you’ll no longer be able to download it after Monday.

We’ll continue through the weekend to try to get as many bug fixes and requested improvements in as we can before then.

Thanks,

-tex

If you check the comments on that forum post, you’ll see most are not happy (OK, all are not happy) and some want to start a petition.

Not that it would do much good. Not only is the Palm Web OS going to make Palm devices iPhone-ish, the company is apparently becoming Apple-ish in terms of legal issues.

Seriously, though, it’s hard to see how TealOS hurt Palm, but I know that Palm is treating this new device with Apple-level security, so I can see why they might do this.

Anyway, you have until Monday, so if you want it, buy it now. Not sure if you want to? Watch this video of TealOS in action.