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The marketshare numbers suggest...
RE: The marketshare numbers suggest...
fast-forward 6.5 years.....
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.'"
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9110/colligan-laughs-off-iphone-competition/
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Nearly a decade later, Palm are STILL ILL-PREPARED for larger "palmtop" screens. They'd rather just keep respinning SSS (small square screens) on increasingly feature-deficient "me too" smartphones.
Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P
...which is why the Palm we know is loosing ground.
This race is a marathon, but you pretty much have to sprint every lap.
Watching the way Palm has been operating, I'm left with the feeling that they still think they are the only runner on the track. I'm afraid they were asleep (or was it simply denial) when the other runners blew by them. (But maybe they are just so far behind at this point that from their position it just looks like there are no other runners.)
Symbian is not a better OS. Like MS Windows though, it just comes pre-installed on all those gazillion Nokia phones. I'm still interested is seeing what Apple and some version of Linux can do. If somehow the almost unbelievable happens and that "Linux" is Palm's, so be it. But I'm certainly not waiting for them in an specific way. It's not as if Palm's hardware is particularly compelling either. But so far my TX keeps plugging along and I can't find any compelling reason to upgrade (or is it "downgrade") to anything I'm seeing available right now.
"twrock is infamous around these parts" (from my profile over at Brighthand due to my negative 62 rep points rating)
Well duh
Hint to Palm et al: put the same level of fancy-new-tech into a device sans the phone part, then see how well that sells. Apple already caught on with the iPod Touch (although it still falls very short in too many ways to be a true Palm replacement, it's still miles beyond anything Palm has produced in recent years).
Otherwise the companies are just skewing these stats by what they choose to make. What next? Hershey reporting that their chocolate is selling better than their motor oil?
RE: Well duh
PDA's Past and Present:
Palm TX (Number 2)
Palm - IIIxe, Vx, M500, M505, Tungsten T, TX
Handspring - Edge, Platinum, Deluxe
Sony - SJ22
Casio-EM500
Apple - MP110, MP2000, MP2100
market share
Sachin
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