Comments on: WSJ on the Rubinstein Influence at Palm
Dated December 13th, "Apple's 'Podfather' Now Aims to Revive a Wilting Palm" is written by Pui-Wing Tam. The piece offers some interesting insight into the final days of the Centro's development cycle as well as the sweeping changes occurring these days at Palm Inc. According to the WSJ, Jon Rubinstein, just recently arrived at Palm, wasted no time in making his presence felt. He requested several late-stage running changes be made to the device and ordered Palm employees to work more closely with the device's ODM partner. The WSJ piece then goes on to state that the Centro shipped to Sprint a month earlier than expected and has been the recipient of some of the strongest reviews of any Palm product in recent memory.
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You got a problem with clickety-clicking?
Giggle.
Flip flip flip
(BTW, Mr Murdoch, tear down that pay wall!)
Palm didn't detail WHO they jettisoned recently. Could it really be they killed the new OS? Or the Foleo workers? Or what was left of the PDA group?
Maybe all that's really left is current product support (mfg, sales, mktg) and that's just to make it all the more attractive to, ahem, PALM OFF the IP to a buyer who will line EP's pockets (and, ahem, PALMs).
Gekko?
RE: Flip flip flip
That's your best theory yet! I mean, that 'un just REEKS of a classic TVoRism!
Hmmmm....
Late '07/early '08: Dump the remaining PDA inventory on the market to clear stocks and bring a few $ in to the coffers
Q1-Q3 '08: Flood the market with a bunch of "me-too" rebranded WinMob devices + the 800w (whose design is already in the an). Hope there's enough equity left in the Palm/Treo branding to keep sales strong amidst continued cost-cutting
Q3: Announce the new OS is still on track but won't ship until spring '09 on a new flagship device.
Q4/end of '08: Sell the remnants of the company (essentially the carrier agreements & Palm's assorted IP) to ________________?
Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P
RE: Flip flip flip
His 12 key phone BS is a bad start. More phone-centric devices are not the solution.
Palm is supposed to be a mobile computing company with Palm OS.
Feature phone makers are a dime a dozen.
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