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Palm Reportedly Places Company Up for Sale
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Who the hell would buy Palm?!!
They started a fad (Palm Pilot) but it was over in a year or so. Competition was better than their own stuff within a year (Sony, Handspring)...
Apple took their $400 device and made it a free app (Calendar) on the iPhone.
Palm didn't do squat to update their OS even though it was dead 10 years ago. I am SHOCKED that they have lasted THIS LONG!
Goodbye Palm, you were but a blip in our lives.
They started a fad (Palm Pilot) but it was over in a year or so. Competition was better than their own stuff within a year (Sony, Handspring)...
Apple took their $400 device and made it a free app (Calendar) on the iPhone.
Palm didn't do squat to update their OS even though it was dead 10 years ago. I am SHOCKED that they have lasted THIS LONG!
Goodbye Palm, you were but a blip in our lives.
Apple. For Palms IP and engineers. Palm has good engineers but misguided direction. Apple can point those skills in the right direction and add much needed engineers so they can work on future versions of Mac OS X and the iPhone OS at the same time without straining resources.
Who the hell would buy Palm?!!
They started a fad (Palm Pilot) but it was over in a year or so. Competition was better than their own stuff within a year (Sony, Handspring)...
Apple took their $400 device and made it a free app (Calendar) on the iPhone.
Palm didn't do squat to update their OS even though it was dead 10 years ago. I am SHOCKED that they have lasted THIS LONG!
Goodbye Palm, you were but a blip in our lives.
Huawei is interested in Palm, this could be a smart move, they have the tech to produce the hardware and with webOS they can create something to compete with the rest
They first became popular in 1996 and then transitioned into the Treo smart phones and into the modern day Pre. Hardly a 1 year fad.
When I first got my iPhone I dug out my 10 year old Palm Pilot out of storage and tried out the two devices side by side. I'm embarrassed to say that the 10 year old Palm apps kicked the stuffing out of the modern iPhone Calendar, notepad, and contacts apps. 3 updates later and Apple still hasn't caught up
Moving from a black and white 160*160 screen up to 65000 colour 480*320 resolution. Transitioning from 68000 architecture to ARM architecture. Adding wifi, bluetooth, cellular radio, external memory support. How about that complete rewrite to a Linux based system with resolution independent graphics? Yup Never updated it oncePalm didn't do squat to update their OS even though it was dead 10 years ago. I am SHOCKED that they have lasted THIS LONG!
Yes, I'll miss them too... Good company, some great innovations, never afraid to take a chance, but horrible, horrible, horrible marketing.
Uh, you don't need to buy Palm to get their top employees. Let Palm die and hire the unemployed at a discount.
I think they were afraid to take a chance. Handspring (former Palm employees) made better devices because Palm was scared to try something different. Sony beat them both and was smart enough to know when to get out of the game.
Palm's phone application felt dated and slow.
Nokia kicked their ass without an OS. Blackberry kicked their ass at their own game. And Apple not only kicked their ass but made them drool like a fool.
Their problem wasn't marketing, it was VISION.
I remember commercials for the Palm Pre that were shown again and again during the remake of The Prisoner a little while ago. They featured a very strange looking actress and were downright disturbing to watch
Actually, that is what I was thinking...
Horrible marketing.
I actually liked the Pre, some good ideas.
But, I also agree that Palm had waited too long.
webOS 1.4, the games should have come out earlier and the marketing should have been a lot better - it did more damage than good.
Wow - thats generous!
I agree with Apple being a possibility - Right now Palms biggest asset right now is their IP library, outside of Apple, there really isnt many companies that make their own hardware and software like Palm does. RIM does that, but their focus is not really compatible with what Palm does.
Wow - thats generous!
I agree with Apple being a possibility - Right now Palms biggest asset right now is their IP library, outside of Apple, there really isnt many companies that make their own hardware and software like Palm does. RIM does that, but their focus is not really compatible with what Palm does.
Cisco.
Handspring == Palm for all intents and purposes. No different than how when Jobs came back to Apple he brought a lot of the NeXT IP with him.
Of course it does compared to today's iPhone. Common sense there, isn't it?
Have you tried Web OS? There's a reason the tech blogs claim that Web OS is the only thing out there that is any real competition to the iPhone. Vision is hardly the problem. I hope Apple buys out Palm just so they can steal some of the vision from Web OS.
RIP Palm
So sad to hear of this sale. Palm was great and made a huge difference to how handheld devices were accepted by the general public in the early days. It was unfortunate that Apple's Newton didn't catch on - but as we all know, it had a formative influence on Palm's devices and others to come - all the way up to iPhone and iPad today! (BTW, I still have my two Newtons!)
I will be sad on the one hand if Palm disappears. But on the other, I think that they got their just desserts. I think Palm took the wrong course when it started to go head-to-head with Apple and play silly games along the way, rather than focusing on independant innovation and/or branching into a completely new direction with devices that didn't compete with Apple, Google, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, and everyone else.
I think Palm could have come out with a new device category altogether, and saved itself in the so doing. Too bad. RIP Palm.
So sad to hear of this sale. Palm was great and made a huge difference to how handheld devices were accepted by the general public in the early days. It was unfortunate that Apple's Newton didn't catch on - but as we all know, it had a formative influence on Palm's devices and others to come - all the way up to iPhone and iPad today! (BTW, I still have my two Newtons!)
I will be sad on the one hand if Palm disappears. But on the other, I think that they got their just desserts. I think Palm took the wrong course when it started to go head-to-head with Apple and play silly games along the way, rather than focusing on independant innovation and/or branching into a completely new direction with devices that didn't compete with Apple, Google, HTC, Nokia, Samsung, and everyone else.
I think Palm could have come out with a new device category altogether, and saved itself in the so doing. Too bad. RIP Palm.