This was Palm CEO Ed Colligan in early November 2006:Responding to questions from New York Times correspondent John Markoff at a Churchill Club breakfast gathering Thursday morning, Colligan laughed off the idea that any company - including the wildly popular Apple Computer - could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.
"We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." Now flash forward to July 2007 and behold, the IPhone outsells all other smartphones. In the meantime Palm announced the much ridiculed Foleo which they have just canceled before it ever hit the shelves.
I have a Palm Treo and really like it. And Palm previously dominated the handheld organizer space. But they have lost just about everything at this point. Supposedly they are working on an all new linux powered software platform, and that sounds good to me, but at the same time it sounds like something you might try as a last ditch effort. I'm guessing it will be too little too late for Palm.
Mr Ed better be looking for a new job, maybe Jobs is hiring:>)
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I have a Palm Treo and really like it. And Palm previously dominated the handheld organizer space. But they have lost just about everything at this point. Supposedly they are working on an all new linux powered software platform, and that sounds good to me, but at the same time it sounds like something you might try as a last ditch effort. I'm guessing it will be too little too late for Palm.
- jim 9-05-2007 6:38 pm
Mr Ed better be looking for a new job, maybe Jobs is hiring:>)
- Skinny 9-05-2007 9:59 pm