Comments on: Palm is Named in S&P's Latest Weakest Links Report

- http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/08/14/afx5322091.html

That "B3" means essentially "highly speculative non-investment-grade".

You SURE you want to buy in?

Wouldn't it be funny as all hell if ACCESS, sick of ALPO going nowhere, simply BOUGHT PALM?

Cue more weeping and gnashing of teeth here at PIC.

only play at this point would be an acquisition play. but who would by them? why? and for what premium? and with what? in the market where everyone is scrimping for cash on their balance sheets and trying to survive? who wants more debt? so you buy 1,000 shares at $3 and someone buys them at 20% premium and pays $3.60 = you made $600 before taxes. whoopee. not worth the risk IMO of the $3,000 downside to $0 that could very well happen.

and what happens when apple announces the $99 iphone?

So let's redo that entire post:

Though this message board/web site isn't really the place for Palm financial discussions, the most-recently reported Short Interest on Palm increased a still-dramatic 13+% over its already-astronomic previous size - and did so in half a month.

Go here:

- http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/trader.aspx?id=ShortInterest

and type in "palm" and hit "Search".

The thing about an iPhone HD is ... how fekkin teeny weeny would type appear in Safari then? Go on, look at the NYT and have nothing but --- appearing as lines of text. You wouldn't know what the hell to tap on!

No, it won't be a higher-res screen in an iPhone. It'll be an iPod Air/iPod Touchbook with a larger hi-res screen. I got the timing all wrong. Something that big is a January MacWorld Event, not an October reveal.

mike - this is more your speed, old man -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNdw4CfbwQg

[ob-disclosure - I own a massive 70 shares of GM and something like 500 of GE bought at just about their peak price so, though biased and possibly benefiting from others' purchases of these, I seriously doubt any cast of, say, 100,000 buyers will benefit me enough!]

And thus Justice is cheated once again!

I call bullshit on this. I suspect if they are talking at all, it to hold over ATT's head when the Apple/ATT distrobution contract is upo either in 2010 or 2012. Also, I can't see Verizon giving up the control that Apple demands. Verizon already has some iphone clones in the pipe and while Apple may want to expand to a new pool at some point once the ATT sales saturate, an easier play would be T-Moble another GSM carrier before haveing to re-engineer the phone as a CDMA phone. Why make the investment at this time in the teeth of a recession. Finally, Apple would have to have the phone recertified for CDMA with the FCC which will take time and coin.

"Many men stumble across the truth, but most manage to pick themselves up
and continue as if nothing had happened."
- Winston Churchill

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/10/25/three-new-verizon-handsets-leaked-samsung-omnia-and-saga-htc-touch-pro/

I think the sweet spot of the market over the next year+ for the average consumer & carriers alike is going to be feature-laden, large touchscreen-enabled dumbphones, ala Dare/Instinct etc.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

There's not much overseas interest in CDMA, and CDMA carriers in Canada and Australia have already started to migrate to GSM, so why would Apple put any effort into implementing CDMA support?

of course, but - they could have still linked the Google Maps for PalmOS. or even created a Google Mail PalmOS app that would work.

Speaking of $3 per share for Palm, you are pointing out a key problem for Palm - the "time value" of one's own reputation/brand - they're losing it.

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In fact, a LOT of us out here believe it.

The Landslide for Change in a week - not just Presidential but right across the board with Congress/Senate as well - is going to be a wonder to behold.

Oh wait.