Comments on: Palm Targets Additional Developers with Cease & Desist Letters

... given the market sucking on that Centro teat, yeah, this probably makes sense.

I mean, if these people were *smart* to begin with, they'd have iPhones.

Let's review.

iPhone = Owners with brains
Centro = Owners are drooling imbeciles

...Of course we wouldn't, Palm - many of these third party applications were developed in the last few years, nearly all of yours were built prior to 1997, then speckled with color in about 1999. AND - they actually get maintained, improved and updated - certainly NOT your style!

I can understand Palm wants to protect their trademark - after all it's probably the largest investment they've made in the past few years ($30 million dollars http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/7864/palmone-acquires-rights-to-palm-brand-name/)?!? Judging from what's actually been released, they certainly don't seem to have spent much on R&D.

But WTF is with the lame excuse that their "customers may confuse those applications for applications developed by Palm Inc. themselves"? We may be stupid enough to keep buying your products despite the fact they are mainly bugfixes nowadays - but exactly what "applications" have you "developed" for us lately, "Palm, Incorporated"?


Paying my annual PDA update tax to Palm since 1997.

I believe they'll do more damage to their public image than they will enhance their 'goodwill,' but I have never been one to count on an IP lawyer to get that right.

Harold

Giggle.

On another level, this makes about as much sense as Apple sueing somebody over "Newton Revolt." One platform is dead and the other is dying. Seems like misspent resources, but Palm knows how to misspend resources better than anybody.

Finally, if Palm legal wanted to put themselves to good use they would bring suit against Palm themselves and sue for a new Palm (OS) product in FY08.

First they came for the Developers, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Developer. Then they came for the News Sites, and I did not speak out - because I was not a News Site. Then they came for the Bloggers, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Blogger. Then they came for Mike Cane - and I said, "please, take him."

Yeah, except when we *loved* them.

Which was when they were doing things *right*.

And who the eff is using a *WinMob* device, anyway? Don't wave that pathetic Palm logo at me.

Once my Treo 680 dies that's it for me; no more Palm products.

Palm is only S&D'ing sites that use it's name to sell their software.
Ether through the name of the site or the name of the program.

They are paving the way for their own iTunes style App store.

This is why PIC and Palm Addicts have not been targeted and possibly why PalmGear merged with PocketGear.
If they are hosting the server they would have to have early warning to prepare.

It all fits with Alan G's "mobile me 2" service.

Att Palm:
I am one of many T|X owners who would happily be Beta testers for Nova.
We could give you valuable feedback without ever having to go threw the networks for approval.

An insider source of mine tells me that Palm is trying to reclaim their name and will apparently be sending out more legal notices to software containing their trademarked name brands of Palm, Treo, Centro, as they believe customers may confuse those applications for applications developed by Palm Inc. themselves.