Palm Presenting at Investor Conference Next Week

http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/twp/tech09/05303132.cfm

Psssssst! Palm put out a press release. It's not some big secret. :P

http://investor.palm.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=363935

http://tinyurl.com/aa6vvs

-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G

Found a picture of Mike Cane:

Are you sure it's not this? http://tinyurl.com/abk8y2

Ah, the "glory days" of Palm. Sony, Handera, Tapwave, everyone was trying to build the next greatest thing.


"twrock is infamous around these parts" (from my profile over at Brighthand due to my negative 62 rep points rating)

i'm not the one that scares small animals and little children.

Audience participation: who are the key manufacturing partners? "Confidential. They're the best of the best. We're not concerned about their ability to ramp. This is a complex design and develop and we really want to nail the forecasting, especially in this economic climate. We need to predict and manage the supply chain effectively."El

Does it concern you that HTC might compete with you as well as manufacturing your stuff? No.

On Elevation: "Mid-life venture capital. They have a long-term view... I knew we were going through a big transition and it would take 18 months at least to get it out the door. They're very supportive. Fred Anderson is an asset 'cause he's been through that at Apple."

Will that 100 mil be enough to get you through? "We did a lot of planning to make sure it would be enough. We clearly have a very difficult economic environment that has put pressure on our revenue... Centro is maturing and we're trying to get Treo Pro out the door."

Third-party developers? "There's tens of thousands of PalmOS developers, huge community we've worked with. There are certain apps that are killer apps that drive sales... ePocrates for instance. We're doing what we can to get these guys to come over. The second thing is the whole web app community that weren't targeted by PalmOS, hence the web-based dev environment. Number of apps out day one, we expect it will grow very rapidly."

outta time! i'm going back to sleep

Tim
I apologise for any and all emoticons that appear in my posts. You may shoot them on sight.
Treo 270 -> Treo 650 -> Treo 680 -> Centro

Apple will certainly continue without Jobs - they might even come up with better, more open products - but their shares will suffer. You can't get away with turning your Chief into a cult leader without suffering some inevitable comedown when he finally leaves.

Note how he didn't say " Yes" to the answer "Do you expect to have a fully functioning App Store on launch?"

That wasn't the question so far as I recall. It was something like "How are you going to support/entice developers?" Colligan mentioned the app catalog as part of that and made no reference to it being available at launch or not. I expect it will. He also said it will "catalog everything on the device", although I'm not sure if that means it will catalog the software on your personal device and make recommendations based on that, or if he just means it will have all the webOS software in it.